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Headword:
Agurtês
Adler number: alpha,389
Translated headword: mendicant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a charlatan and a cheat. To collect [money] and make a collection [of it], to go around and wander around boasting about a victory or something else of the sort. The agyrtes is also the name of a throw at dice.[1]
"He censured him for being afraid of oracles and always wanting to turn over his household affairs to mendicants."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] a)gurtika/, [meaning] abundant lies.[3]
Also [sc. attested is] a)gurtw/dh, [meaning] vulgarities.
Greek Original:Agurtês: ho alazôn kai apateôn. to de ageirein kai to periageirein, to periïenai kai perinostein epi nikêi ê tini heterôi toioutôi semnunein. ho de agurtês kai kubeutikou bolou onoma estin. emempheto autou to peri tas manteias eptoêmenon kai boulomenon aei tois agurtais epitrepein ta oikeia pragmata. kai Agurtika, chudaia pseusmata. kai Agurtôdê, surphetôdê.
Notes:
See already
alpha 388 (and
alpha 387).
[1] Same material in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha281 Theodoridis.
[2]
Damascius [cf.
alpha 388] fr. 215 Zintzen.
[3] Same glossing of this neuter plural in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha282 Theodoridis.
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 27 March 1999@18:08:38.
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