*tetelesme/nwn: memiasme/nwn.
The headword is the perfect middle-passive participle, genitive plural, of the verb
tele/w (
I develop, accomplish, execute, perform); see generally LSJ s.v. The earliest attestation of the headword form is
Aristotle,
Generation of Animals 779a25, where he notes that "the newborn [sc. human] is asleep more than any other animal, for it is born less developed than any other
of the having been fully developed" animal infants. (The contrast here would be with e.g. a dog, whose puppies are born blind, and so not with fully developed organs; see Peck, pp. 492-3n.) However, given the gloss (see next note), the entry is thought to be generated by the instance of the headword form at
Hosea 4.14
LXX: "I will not punish your daughters whenever they turn to prostitution, nor your wives whenever they commit adultery; for the men themselves consort among prostitutes and sacrifice among
those [e.g. temple prostitutes] that have been consecrated."
[1] The gloss is the same form as the headword, but from the verb
miai/nw,
I stain, sully, taint, defile; see generally LSJ s.v.
A.L. Peck, trans., Aristotle: Generation of Animals, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000
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