Μειονεκτεῖ

falls short, is short of

Translated by David Whitehead7 Jul 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

5 words

[Meaning he/she/it] brings less, reduces.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μειονεκτεῖ· τὸ ἧττον φέρει, ἐλαττοῖ.

Betacode

*meionektei=: to\ h(=tton fe/rei, e)lattoi=.

Likewise or similarly elsewhere: see the references at Photius mu216 Theodoridis. The headword verb must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Xenophon's Hiero, which has three instances (1.19, 1.29, 4.1), two of them quoted by Stobaeus.
cf. mu 853, mu 854.

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