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Headword:
*me/taitos
Adler number: mu,751
Translated headword: mendicant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] beggar, panhandler.[1]
"He died a mendicant and impoverished of money, so much so as to be buried at public expense."[2]
Greek Original:*me/taitos: e)pai/ths, prosai/ths. ou(/tw te me/taitos e)teleu/thse kai\ xrhma/twn a)/poros, w(s koinoi=s tafh=nai xrh/masi.
Notes:
[1] The headword is normally
metai/ths (so given in LSJ). For the glossing cf.
Hesychius mu988 (genitive cases).
[2] John of
Antioch fr.43 FHG (4.555), now 78 Roberto = Constantine Porphyogenitus,
On virtues and vices Vol. 1 p. 169 Büttner-Wobst & Roos; concerning the consular tribune Lucius Valerius Poplicola (
pi 2052).
The three nouns differ only in their prepositional prefix: begging to share something, begging about something, begging towards something.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 31 July 2009@04:31:58.
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