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Headword: Katakorês
Adler number: kappa,586
Translated headword: satiated
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning someone] eating to satiety. "[Justinian] never became satiated with food and drink, but he used to leave the table having barely tasted with the end of his finger."[1]
Greek Original:
Katakorês: achri korou esthiôn. sitiois kai potôi katakorês oudamê gegonen, alla schedon akrôi daktulôi geusamenos apêllatteto.
Notes:
With the headword (evidently extracted from the quotation given) cf. kappa 587, kappa 589.
[1] Procopius, Secret History 13.28 (web address 1), on Justinian (cf. iota 446 generally); cf. Kaldellis (64). On the emperor's ascetic habits, see also alpha 163 and alpha 3522.
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; historiography
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 October 2005@19:11:16.
Vetted by:
Antonella Ippolito (set status) on 3 October 2005@21:42:01.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; augmented notes) on 4 October 2005@03:31:51.
David Whitehead on 31 January 2013@07:05:34.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1; added bibliography, cross-references, and link) on 15 June 2024@10:57:53.
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