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Headword:
Mathêma
Adler number: mu,42
Translated headword: learning, lesson
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] pursuit, occupation, mode of life, way of life, allegation, [something] from which we are likely to spend time in connection with our affairs. But to learn better [
metamaqei=n] is to cease. Strictly speaking they used to describe as 'learning better' learning something else after these things, having abandoned what was first.
Aristophanes in
Plutus [writes]: "and would you not learn better?"
Greek Original:Mathêma: epitêdeuma, ascholêma, diaita, diagôgê, prophasis, aph' hês mellomen peri ta pragmata diatribein. metamathein de estin to pausasthai. kuriôs de metamathein elegon to meta tauta heteron ti mathein, aphemenon tou prôtou. Aristophanês Ploutôi: oud' an metamathois;
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 6 January 2007@18:06:34.
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