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Headword:
Archaia
Adler number: alpha,4069
Translated headword: principals
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the capital sums of debts.
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "[weep, you moneylenders] yourselves and your principals and your compound interests."[1]
Greek Original:Archaia: ta kephalaia tôn chreôn. Aristophanês Nephelais: autoi te kai tarchaia kai tokoi tokôn.
Notes:
The headword, a neuter plural, is extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 1155-56 (web address 1 below), with scholion; more fully at
iota 483.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 April 2001@18:42:32.
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