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Headword:
Eleutheriotês
Adler number: epsilon,805
Translated headword: liberality
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] goodwill without pretense.[1]
"Because of his liberality towards gift-giving": Vespasian the emperor of the Romans says this.[2]
"He had reached such a peak of liberality that he did not even accept to prepare provisioning for him from the state and from the palace which was not solitary but large somehow or other [...]."[3]
Greek Original:Eleutheriotês: hê mê kata kibdêleian charis. dia tên pros tas dôreas eleutheriotêta: phêsin Ouespasianos basileus Rhômaiôn. ho de tosouton eleutheriotêtos elêlakei hôste oude apo tês politeias ênescheto sitêsin autôi paraskeuasai kai tês oikias ouk ousês monêrous, alla suchnês amêgepê.
Notes:
See also under
mu 369.
[1] This glossing is not paralleled elsewhere.
[2] Perhaps -- but under
beta 246 the phrase is used
about Vespasian.
[3] Quotation (partially repeated under
sigma 1699) unidentifiable.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 March 2006@00:59:22.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 7 March 2006@02:50:29.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; tweaking) on 13 August 2012@06:40:23.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 8 January 2017@01:48:42.
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