Ἀδορατία

non-deployment

Translated by Sean M. Redmond22 Oct 1999Vetting: high4 revisions

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[Meaning] exemption from military service.¹ But strictly speaking [it means] rest.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀδορατία· ἡ ἀστρατεία. κυρίως δὲ ἡ ἀργία.

Betacode

*)adorati/a: h( a)stratei/a. kuri/ws de\ h( a)rgi/a.

The headword, attested only here and in ps.-Zonaras (though Adler cites a comparable entry in the Ambrosian Lexicon), literally means "spearlessness", from do/ru, "spear": see delta 1394, and cf. delta 1378 for the diminutive dora/tion. Some cognates, like the verb dorati/zomai and the noun doratismo/s, retain the literal connection with spears; this one is looser.