Ἀλιτηρίους
sinners
Translated by Jennifer Benedict18 May 2000Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀλιτηρίους· ἀποτυχόντας, ἁμαρτόντας, ἀστοχήσαντας. οὐ μόνον ἀπράκτους παρεσκεύασας ἐπανελθεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀλιτηρίους πάντων τῶν αὐτοῖς ἐντεταλμένων ἀπέδειξας. καὶ αὖθις· ἢ πῶς οὐκ ἔμελλεν ὅδε ἄνθρωπος δαίμων τις ἀλιτήριος εἶναι.
Betacode
*)alithri/ous: a)potuxo/ntas, a(marto/ntas, a)stoxh/santas. ou) mo/non a)pra/ktous pareskeu/asas e)panelqei=n, a)lla\ kai\ a)lithri/ous pa/ntwn tw=n au)toi=s e)ntetalme/nwn a)pe/deicas. kai\ au)=qis: h)\ pw=s ou)k e)/mellen o(/de a)/nqrwpos dai/mwn tis a)lith/rios ei)=nai.
Notes (3)
- Same entry is ps.-Zonaras.↩
- 1Three participles gloss the headword, a noun (for which see already alpha 1257 and alpha 1258) perhaps, though not demonstrably, extracted from the first quotation given; all, like it, are in the masculine accusative plural. ↩
- 2Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 3Procopius, Secret History 12.27 (web address 1), on the emperor Justinian's nature and habits; cf. Kaldellis (60). On Justinian I, see iota 446.
References
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- α1257Ἀλιτήριοςsinning[Meaning] unholy, one who is mired in defilement and a wrongdoer against gods. Aristophanes in Knights [writes]: "I say you were born out of those sinning against the goddess [sc. Athena]."
- α1258Ἀλιτήριοιsinners[Meaning] offenders, but they used to be called a)lith/rioi ["sinners"] for the following reason: once famine gripped the Athenians, and the poor were seizing the flour [a)/leura] from those milling [it] [a)lou=ntes].…
- δ118Δαιμονίωςmarvelously, miraculously[Meaning] surprisingly. "'He was attended', he said, 'in a marvelous manner'." "He was marvelously keen on sex." Meaning surprisingly, exceedingly.
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