Τελωνεῖον
tax-booth, tax-office
Translated by David Whitehead15 May 2005Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Accentuated] with a circumflex on the penultimate syllable,1 [and meaning the place] where the tax-collector sits.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τελωνεῖον· προπερισπωμένως, ἐν ᾧ καθέζεται ὁ τελώνης.
Betacode
*telwnei=on: properispwme/nws, e)n w(=| kaqe/zetai o( telw/nhs.
Notes (1)
Linked from3 entries
- τ287Τελώνηςtax-collector, publican[Meaning] advance-payment. Iamblichus [writes]: "the tax-collector gave the necklace to the merchant. Will not already wolves set down lambs out of their mouths and lions release from their teeth fawns to their mothers,…
- τ292Τελώνιονcustoms-houseProparoxytone, [and] to be written with iota. The Pisidian [writes]: "I wanted to attack the whole breadth of the speech in your narrow customs-house."
- τ1147Τυγχάνω(happen to) achieve, succeed, encounter; come one’s way[Used] with a genitive.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 8 Jan 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead