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Headword: Palimbolon
Adler number: pi,88
Translated headword: reversed, unstable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] unreliable, untrustworthy.[1] "For [he said that] the Scythian people was unstable."[2]
Greek Original:
Palimbolon: abebaion, apiston. to gar Skuthikon einai palimbolon.
Notes:
[1] If, as seems reasonable to assume, the headword is extracted from the quotation, it is neuter singular of this adjective (a compound of the adverb pa/lin, "back", and the verbal root bol-, "throw"; cf. pi 89, and LSJ entry at web address 1).
[2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 10.1 Blockley.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 July 2001@22:01:24.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 19 July 2001@03:31:41.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks) on 11 May 2011@07:49:09.
David Whitehead (updated n.2) on 3 January 2012@07:03:08.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; another keyword) on 11 August 2013@05:34:20.
Catharine Roth (betacode) on 27 July 2014@12:10:00.

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