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Alitêrioi
Adler number: alpha,1258
Translated headword: sinners
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] offenders, but they used to be called a)lith/rioi ["sinners"] for the following reason: once famine gripped the Athenians, and the poor were seizing the flour [a)/leura] from those milling [it] [a)lou=ntes]. From them, by a misuse of language, they began to call [sc. any] knaves a)lith/rioi. The word extended also to those doing something by force, from the grain shortage which occurred during the Aetolian war.[1] It is also, by a slight change, [derivable] from the [verb] a)litrai/nein, which is to sin.[2]
Greek Original:Alitêrioi: hamartôloi, alitêrioi de enteuthen ekalounto: limos katelabe pote tous Athênaious, kai hoi penêtes ta tôn alountôn aleura diêrpazon. apo goun ekeinôn katachrêstikôs tous ponêrous alitêrious ekaloun. pareteine de to onoma kai epi tôn meta bias ti poiountôn apo tês sitodeias tês kata ton Aitôlikon polemon genomenês. esti de kai paragôgôs apo tou alitrainein, ho estin hamartanein.
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Keywords: aetiology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; history; military affairs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 23 May 2000@02:07:33.
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