Ἐθελοδουλία

voluntary servitude

Translated by Catharine Roth19 Dec 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

2 words

[no gloss]

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐθελοδουλία.

Betacode

*)eqelodouli/a.

The headword -- a single abstract noun in the Greek -- famously occurs (albeit in -eia form) in Plato, Symposium 184C (web address 1). The passage, anthologized by Stobaeus (3.5.53), uses the term figuratively, of a lover's "voluntary servitude" toward his beloved.