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Headword:
*)arguramoibo/s
Adler number: alpha,3787
Translated headword: money-changer
Vetting Status: high
Translation: One who exchanges a [sc. copper] coin for silver, a banker, a money-dealer, cashier.[1]
Greek Original:*)arguramoibo/s: o( ke/rma a)nti\ a)rgu/rou a)llasso/menos, o( trapezi/ths, o( a)rguropra/ths, kollekta/rios.
Notes:
Same material, variously, in other lexica, including
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon. (The headword occurs in the accusative plural in
Plato,
Politicus 289E.)
[1] The word for "cashier" here,
kollektarios, is the Greek version of the Latin "collectarius". It has its own entry at
kappa 1934, repeating the present one.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 July 2001@01:45:44.
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