Ἀγείρει
collects
Translated by William Hutton22 Oct 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] gathers.1
Also [sc. attested is the participle] "those who collect".2 "For their manner was sacred and nothing like those who collect [alms?]."3
And elsewhere: "wishing to go undetected, he shaves his head and his beard and puts on an Egyptian mantle, the sort that the attendants of Isis wear, and shaking a sistrum and going from one city to the next, and collecting [alms] in the name of the goddess and gratefully accepting necessary sustenance, as a drug against hunger".4
Also [sc. attested is the participle] "those who collect".2 "For their manner was sacred and nothing like those who collect [alms?]."3
And elsewhere: "wishing to go undetected, he shaves his head and his beard and puts on an Egyptian mantle, the sort that the attendants of Isis wear, and shaking a sistrum and going from one city to the next, and collecting [alms] in the name of the goddess and gratefully accepting necessary sustenance, as a drug against hunger".4