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Headword:
*te/los
Adler number: tau,281
Translated headword: telos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] rule, action. What is rendered unto kings [is] also a
telos. Expenditure [is] also a
telos; hence [the adjective]
polyteles, [meaning something] very expensive. Another meaning of
telos is limit [
peras]. And [likewise] marriage; hence the prenuptial rites [
proteleia].
*te/los: a)rxh/, pra=cis. te/los kai\ to\ dido/menon toi=s basileu=si. te/los kai\ to\ dapa/nhma: o(/qen polutele/s, to\ poluana/lwton. te/los kai\ to\ pe/ras. kai\ o( ga/mos: o(/qen kai\ ta\ prote/leia.
Notes:
This compendious entry, also in other lexica (see the copious references at
Photius tau139 Theodoridis) draws on a variety of earlier lexica, and also
scholia to passages where the headword, a neuter noun with multiple meanings (see LSJ s.v.), occurs: e.g.
Homer,
Iliad 10.56;
Plato,
Symposium 205A.
cf.
epsilon 1455,
pi 2008,
tau 271.
Translated by: Z. Philip Ambrose on 18 January 2000@02:08:57.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 31 December 2002@11:07:56.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 23 October 2005@09:34:27.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 8 January 2014@04:46:38.
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