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Headword: *)agei/rei
Adler number: alpha,211
Translated headword: collects
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] gathers.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the participle] "those who collect".[2] "For their manner was sacred and nothing like those who collect [alms?]."[3]
And elsewhere: "wishing to go undetected, he shaves his head and his beard and puts on an Egyptian mantle, the sort that the attendants of Isis wear, and shaking a sistrum and going from one city to the next, and collecting [alms] in the name of the goddess and gratefully accepting necessary sustenance, as a drug against hunger".[4]
Greek Original:
*)agei/rei: suna/gei. kai\ *)agei/rousin. o( ga\r tro/pos i(ero\s h)=n kai\ ou)de\n e)oikw\s toi=s a)gei/rousin. kai\ au)=qis: o( de\ laqei=n qe/lwn curei=tai th\n kefalh\n kai\ to\ ge/neion, kai\ stolh\n *ai)gupti/an a)nalabw\n, h(\n oi( th=s *)/isidos qerapeuth=res h)/sqhntai, kai\ sei=stron e)pisei/wn kai\ po/lin e)k po/lews a)mei/bwn, kai\ th=| qew=| a)gei/rwn kai\ a)nagkai/as trofa\s, limou= fa/rmaka, a)gaphtw=s lamba/nwn.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar entry in other lexica; references at Photius alpha140 Theodoridis. The headword must be quoted from somewhere.
[2] Dative plural a)gei/rousin, from the quotation which follows.
[3] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.39.
[4] Aelian fr.124c Domingo-Forasté (121 Hercher); see also pi 2900, sigma 293.
Keywords: biography; clothing; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; geography; history; medicine; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 October 2000@13:45:00.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 23 October 2000@06:33:06.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 6 July 2003@08:27:20.
David Whitehead (x-refs) on 2 May 2004@06:06:23.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 7 February 2011@09:53:06.
David Whitehead on 2 January 2012@09:46:30.
Catharine Roth (updated reference in note 4) on 28 January 2012@19:31:10.
David Whitehead on 18 August 2013@06:49:31.

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