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Headword:
*au)xmhra\
tra/peza
Adler number: alpha,4543
Translated headword: dry table, parched table
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] that which is without food and poor.
Also [sc. attested is] au)xmhro/n ["dry, parched"], [something] hateful, or dark.[1]
Greek Original:*au)xmhra\ tra/peza: h( chra\ kai\ penixra/. kai\ *au)xmhro/n, stugno\n, h)\ skoteino/n.
Notes:
The headword phrase is unidentifiable (
Callimachus fr.33 Kapp, but not in Pfeiffer). See also
alpha 1825.
See generally LSJ s.v.
au)xmhro/s for the full range of meanings, literal and figurative, of this adjective.
[1] Likewise in other lexica, and cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Republic 554A, where this adjective is used of a person.
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; ethics; food; imagery; philosophy; poetry; proverbs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 August 2001@17:49:40.
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