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Headword:
*katanomisteu/sas
Adler number: kappa,672
Translated headword: having melted down into coinage
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] having made into currency.[1] "But he [sc. Herod], because of scarcity of money, melting down into coinage whatever ornaments he had, sent [it] to Antony and his associates."[2]
Greek Original:*katanomisteu/sas: no/misma e)rgasa/menos. o( de\ kata\ spa/nin h)/dh xrhma/twn, o(/son ei)=xe ko/smon, katanomisteu/sas *)antwni/w| kai\ toi=s peri\ au)to\n e)/pemyen.
Notes:
[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the rare verb
katanomisteu/w.
[2] A close approximation of
Josephus,
Jewish War 1.358, which has the compound verb
a)ne/pemyen, "sent up" (web address 1).
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 June 2008@23:42:05.
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