Δώς
giving
Translated by Catharine Roth8 Feb 2005Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] making a gift, gift-giving. "Giving [is] good, but theft bad, the giver of death."1
And Aelian in the Varied History [writes] concerning the Roman women: "when they received the gifts from Pyrrhus, they said that the giving befitted them and was worthy of Pyrrhus who had sent [them], but that it was against their religion to wear [them]."2
And Aelian in the Varied History [writes] concerning the Roman women: "when they received the gifts from Pyrrhus, they said that the giving befitted them and was worthy of Pyrrhus who had sent [them], but that it was against their religion to wear [them]."2