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Headword:
Lupron
Adler number: lambda,848
Translated headword: wretched
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] grievous.
[Meaning] painful.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] lupro/gaion ["with poor soil"].[2] Appian [writes]: "for poor soil and poverty leads you into [a life of] robbery. But I will give good land to [my] working-poor friends."[3]
Greek Original:Lupron: epachthes. lupêron. kai Luprogaion. Appianos: to gar luprogaion kai penichron humas eis lêisteian agei. dôsô d' egô penomenois philois gên agathên.
Notes:
The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) is masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective (for which cf.
lambda 846,
lambda 847).
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (and some Euripidean
scholia): see the references at
Photius lambda470 Theodoridis.
[2]
*lupro/gaios is a variant of
lupro/gews; cf. next note.
[3] An approximation of Appian,
Iberica 250 (where
lupro/gewn is the form used); Lucullus is speaking.
Keywords: agriculture; biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 April 2009@13:35:03.
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