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Headword:
Katesklêkôs
Adler number: kappa,991
Translated headword: having become a skeleton
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone] having withered up.[1]
"By the austerity [literally, the having-become-a-skeleton] of their life-style and the molding of their habits towards moderation, having been so far empowered that these men also were surrounded with not the least multitude, having established monasteries."[2]
Greek Original:Katesklêkôs: katexêrammenos. tôi ge mên katesklêkoti tou biou kai têi eis metriotêta plasei tôn êthôn houtô dunêthentes, hôste ouk elachista kai houtoi plêthê periebalonto, askêtêria sustêsamenoi.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. Perfect active participle of
kataske/llomai; headword in the masculine nominative singular; dative in the quotation given (which the other lexica do not have).
[2] Part of an unidentifiable quotation referring to the semi-Arian bishops Eleusios and Marathonios; cf.
alpha 2405 and esp.
epsilon 813, with the note to the latter.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; medicine; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 August 2008@01:26:10.
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