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Headword: *)ecargurw=sai
Adler number: epsilon,1558
Translated headword: to turn [something] into silver [coinage]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. One should say] e)cargurw=sai, not e)carguri/sai. Thucydides [in book] 8 [writes]: "not even if it were necessary finally to turn his own [silver] couch into silver".
Greek Original:
*)ecargurw=sai, ou)k e)carguri/sai: *qoukudi/dhs h#: ou)d' h)\n de/h| teleutw=nta th\n e(autou= strwmnh\n e)cargurw=sai.
Notes:
Same or similar entry in other lexica. It concerns Thucydides 8.81.3, where the aorist infinitives of e)carguro/w and e)carguri/zw are alternative readings (web address 1).
Alcibiades represents the words as coming from the Persian satrap Tissaphernes; cf. mu 1067.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; historiography; history; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 June 2007@01:40:48.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 13 June 2007@03:05:56.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 10 September 2012@07:10:10.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 10 September 2012@23:24:59.
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