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Headword:
*prosu/mbola
Adler number: pi,2837
Translated headword: preliminary contributions
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "But let these things be spoken as preliminary contributions, as they say."
Greek Original:*prosu/mbola: a)lla\ tau=ta me\n ei)rh/sqw prosu/mbola, w(/s fasi.
Note:
The headword is the plural nominative or accusative -- nominative if drawn from the quotation given -- of a hypothetical neuter noun prosu/mbolon. This form appears after the Suda in Nicephorus Blemmydes' Autobiography 2.82; otherwise neither this nor any other form of the word is attested.
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; rhetoric
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 September 2013@18:33:22.
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