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Headword: Arguramoibos
Adler number: alpha,3787
Translated headword: money-changer
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
One who exchanges a [sc. copper] coin for silver, a banker, a money-dealer, cashier.[1]
Greek Original:
Arguramoibos: ho kerma anti argurou allassomenos, ho trapezitês, ho arguropratês, kollektarios.
Notes:
Same material, variously, in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. (The headword occurs in the accusative plural in Plato, Politicus 289E.)
[1] The word for "cashier" here, kollektarios, is the Greek version of the Latin "collectarius". It has its own entry at kappa 1934, repeating the present one.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 July 2001@01:45:44.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; added keyword; cosmetics) on 11 July 2001@10:10:53.
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David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 10 April 2012@08:13:55.
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