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Headword: *pria/menos
Adler number: pi,2272
Translated headword: having bought
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he] having purchased [sc. in the market].[1]
Sophocles [writes]: "I would not buy at any price the man who is encouraged by empty hopes."[2]
Greek Original:
*pria/menos: a)gora/sas. *sofoklh=s: ou)k a)\n priai/mhn ou)deno\s lo/gou broto/n, o(/stis kenai=sin e)lpi/sin qermai/netai.
Notes:
For the verb cf. generally epsilon 2862, pi 2271.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius pi1161 Theodoridis. The headword participle is probably quoted from Aristophanes, Clouds 749; the scholia there also have this gloss. (For the glossing verb see alpha 300.)
[2] Sophocles, Ajax 477-8 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; imagery; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 August 2004@00:01:14.
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David Whitehead (x-ref; cosmetics) on 11 August 2004@03:39:59.
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David Whitehead (expanded primary note; cosmetics) on 2 November 2011@10:50:54.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 2 November 2011@11:13:47.
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