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Headword:
*(rembw/dous
Adler number: rho,97
Translated headword: desultory
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] neglected. "Once the siege had become desultory, Skopas fell into disrepute and was violently slandered".[1]
And elsewhere: "having found them dawdling by the precinct, unarmed, he killed them".[2]
Greek Original:*(rembw/dous: h)melhme/nhs. th=s de\ poliorki/as r(embw/dous genome/nhs, o( me\n *sko/pas h)do/cei kai\ diebe/blhto neanikw=s. kai\ au)=qis: eu(rw\n de\ au)tou\s diarembome/nous kata\ to\ te/menos a)o/plous, tou/tous a)pe/kteine.
Notes:
The headword, genitive singular of this adjective, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1]
Polybius 16.39.2 (web address 1); cf. under
sigma 654.
[2] This second quotation illustrates a compound verb cognate with the headword adjective. It is attributed by Adler to
Aelian (though LSJ s.v.
diarre/mbomai opt for "anon.").
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 November 2001@06:04:33.
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