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Headword:
*ma/xlos
Adler number: mu,306
Translated headword: lewd
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] licentious, profligate.[1]
From the [verb] klw= ["I break"] [comes] klo/s, and by addition of the syllable ma [is made] ma/klos, and by a shift [of consonant] ma/xlos.[2]
"[Since] she had previously lived a lewd kind of life and had developed a dissolute character, and had associated largely with her parents' sorcerers [...]."[3]
Greek Original:*ma/xlos: a)selgh/s, a)/swtos. para\ to\ klw=, klo/s, kai\ pleo- nasmw=| th=s ma sullabh=s ma/klos, kai\ troph=| ma/xlos. au(/th to\ pro/teron ma/xlon tina biw/sasa bi/on kai\ to\n tro/pon e)cerrwgui=a farmakeu=si/ te patrw/|ois polla\ w(milhkui=a.
Notes:
cf. generally
mu 305,
mu 307,
mu 308.
[1] Likewise or similarly glossed in other lexica: see the references at
Photius mu153 Theodoridis.
[2] It is hardly necessary to say that this etymology is improbable.
[3] About Antonina, the wife of Belisarius:
Procopius,
Secret History 1.12 (web address 1), quoted also at
epsilon 1650,
phi 98; cf. Kaldellis (5). The passage at
epsilon 165 follows. On Antonina see
epsilon 671 note. On Belisarius see
beta 233 generally.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 September 2005@18:04:01.
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