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Headword:
*prou/neikos
Adler number: pi,2904
Translated headword: porter, low-life
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] runner, speed-merchant.[1]
"They say that if ever
Xenocrates intended to leave [his work and go] into town, all the noise-makers and low-lifes used to make way for him as he passed."[2]
*prou/neikos: dromai=os, gorgo/s. fasi\ de\ *cenokra/th, ei)/ pote me/lloi e)s a)/stu a)pie/nai, tou\s qorubw/deis pa/ntas kai\ prounei/kous u(poste/llein au)tou= th=| paro/dw|.
Notes:
LSJ s.v. does rather better in explaining the dual sense of the headword: literally, a porter working for hire; loosely a wastrel or low-life.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius pi1411 Theodoridis.
[2]
Diogenes Laertius 4.6. For
Xenocrates see generally
xi 42.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 October 2001@05:46:51.
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