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Headword:
*)apotro/paioi
Adler number: alpha,3615
Translated headword: evil-averting, apotropaic
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to be shunned, worthy of being hated; or averting evil things.[1]
"For thus they seemed to be apotropaic and evil-deterring."[2]
Greek Original:*)apotro/paioi: feuktoi\, misei=sqai a)/cioi: h)\ a)potre/pontes ta\ kaka/. ou(/tw ga\r e)do/koun a)potro/paioi/ tines ei)=nai kai\ a)leci/kakoi.
Notes:
See also
alpha 3616.
[1] Same glossing in other lexica; drawn from the
scholia to various passages where the headword adjective (here nominative plural) occurs, e.g.
Plato,
Laws 854B.
[2] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 10.3 Blockley (118-119), on the Sogdian shamans encountered by Zemarchus on his embassy to the Turks (569-571); cf.
alpha 2962.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 June 2001@13:03:12.
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