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Headword:
Aphilotimos
Adler number: alpha,4619
Translated headword: unambitious, having no regard for honor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] humble. [The term comes] from not loving [
filei=n] honor [
timh/], or being a slave to reputation. Or one who is engaged in nothing worthwhile. And a thrifty person [is so described] among some.[1]
"No one had so little regard for honor that after seeing
Moses he was not astounded by his beauty".[2]
Greek Original:Aphilotimos: tapeinos. para to mê philein timên, ê hêttasthai doxês. ê ho pros mêden axiologon epestrammenos. kai ho pheidôlos par' eniois. oudeis ên aphilotimos houtôs, hôs Môüsên theasamenos mê ekplageiê tês eumorphias.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities 2.231; again at
mu 1348 (end).
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 23 November 2000@06:02:05.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 23 November 2000@07:40:18.
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 13 June 2001@10:11:05.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 28 August 2002@09:17:58.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 7 May 2012@07:03:49.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, coding) on 13 February 2015@07:16:27.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 11 September 2015@06:47:28.
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