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Headword:
Koiaistôr
Adler number: kappa,2533
Translated headword: quaestor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Managing the office of quaestor, which I think got its name amongst the Romans from searching-out."[1]
Greek Original:Koiaistôr. tên tou koiaistôros diepôn archên, hên oimai apo tou anazêtein hôde lelechthai para Rhômaiois.
Notes:
Also spelled
kuai/stwr. On this Roman office see generally OCD(4) s.v.; and cf. under
omicron 543,
pi 2474,
tau 951,
tau 956.
[1] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 18.3 Blockley. Though the headword itself is transliterated from Latin into Greek, this etymological gloss on it is only intelligible if the Greek verb used,
a)nazhte/w, is converted into the Latin
quaero.
Keywords: biography; constitution; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 December 2007@07:07:45.
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