Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for tau,287 in Adler number:
Headword:
*telw/nhs
Adler number: tau,287
Translated headword: tax-collector, publican
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] advance-payment.[1]
Iamblichus [writes]: "the tax-collector gave the necklace to the merchant. Will not already wolves set down lambs out of their mouths and lions release from their teeth fawns to their mothers, when even a tax-collector has given up such a prize?"[2]
*telw/nhs. prote/leia. *)ia/mblixos: e)/dwke to\n o(/rmon o( telw/nhs tw=| e)mpo/rw|. ou)k h)/dh kai\ lu/koi qh/sousin a)/rnas e)k tw=n stoma/twn kai\ le/ontes a)po\ tw=n o)do/ntwn a)polu/sousi nebrou\s tai=s mhtra/sin, o(po/te kai\ telw/nhs a)fh=ken a)/gran thlikau/thn;
Notes:
For this headword see also
tau 288,
tau 289,
tau 290, and cf.
tau 291,
tau 292.
[1] Oddly, not a suitable gloss for the headword, but, as indicated, a (broadly) related abstract noun: see
pi 2865,
pi 2866,
pi 2867. (Adler notes that it is lacking in mss GM, and suggests that it has strayed in from the end of
tau 281.)
[2]
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr. 93 Habrich.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 December 2012@01:20:38.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search