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Headword:
Sportoulla
Adler number: sigma,966
Translated headword: sportula, largesse
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] gifts given freely on all [occasions].[1]
"You know that you also owe sportula to us; nevertheless because of the poor, we release you for this."[2]
Greek Original:Sportoulla: dôra epi pantôn didomena parrêsiai. oidas de, hoti kai sportoulla hêmin chreôsteis: all' homôs tôn ptôchôn heneken eis touto soi dialuometha.
Notes:
[1] Transliteration of the Latin word
sportula, here with the definition of a Byzantine Greek dictionary; cf.
pi 2999.
[2] From one of the letters of John Chrysostom. See Favuzzi [cited under
alpha 1990] 60.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 September 2006@00:32:19.
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