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Headword: *balantioto/mos
Adler number: beta,68
Translated headword: cut-purse, purse-cutter
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] thief.
Also [sc. attested are] balantiotomoi ["purse-cutters"]. "When they spent a lot of money they were considered seducers, catamites, burglers, purse-cutters, kidnappers and such-like sorts."[1]
Purse-cutters [are] those who steal purses [balantia].[2]
Greek Original:
*balantioto/mos: kle/pths. kai\ *balantioto/moi. xrhma/twn te mega/lwn e)wnhme/noi h)/gonto moixoi\, po/rnoi, toixwru/xoi, balantioto/moi, a)ndrapodistai\ kai\ ta\ toiau=ta e)/qnh. *balantioto/moi de\ oi( ta\ bala/ntia kle/ptontes.
Notes:
See also beta 67.
[1] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.22; cf. epsilon 327, chi 489.
[2] cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 772, where this word appears.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 April 2002@11:21:13.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 15 April 2002@03:28:20.
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