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Headword:
*strago/s
Adler number: sigma,1160
Translated headword: complicated, irregular
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] shameless,[1] crooked, twisted, troublesome.
Greek Original:*strago/s: a)naidh/s, skolio/s, streblo/s, du/skolos.
Notes:
Likewise in the
Synagoge (sigma244) and
Photius'
Lexicon (sigma599 Theodoridis), and cf.
Hesychius sigma1959. The spelling of the headword as
strago/s is peculiar to these lexica; the regular form is
straggo/s. See generally LSJ s.v. at web address 1.
As to sense, particularly noteworthy is the medical meaning relating to complicated and irregular diseases: cf.
Rufus in
Oribasius 8.24.30 and
Cassius,
Problemata 14. This meaning can be related to the use of the adjective
du/skolos -- the fourth of the present glosses -- within the medical corpus of
Hippocrates (cf.
Coan Prognoses 1.3).
See also
sigma 1161; and more generally
sigma 1157,
sigma 1158,
sigma 1159,
sigma 1162,
sigma 1163.
[1] cf.
iota 736.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; medicine
Translated by: Patrick Manuello on 8 August 2009@17:04:13.
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