Ἀλλοθρόους

foreign-uttering, strange-uttering

Translated by Jennifer Benedict25 May 2000Vetting: high6 revisions

3 words

[Meaning them] foreign-speaking/strange-speaking.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀλλοθρόους· ἀλλοφώνους.

Betacode

*)alloqro/ous: a)llofw/nous.

Same entry in Photius and other lexica. The headword adjective (for its etymology cf. theta 510) is masculine accusative plural, quoted from Homer, Odyssey 1.183; see the scholia there.
Besides epic, also used in tragedy, and Herodotus; not in Attic prose.