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Headword:
*)apo/sthqi
Adler number: alpha,3556
Translated headword: renounce!
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] go away from![1]
Also [sc. attested is the aorist infinitive] a)posth=nai ["to renounce"],[2] [meaning] to be separated from.
"For it is always difficult to renounce what one has by nature. Yet many have experienced this: by assuming the ideas of others they changed their ways."[3]
Greek Original:*)apo/sthqi: a)poxw/rei. kai\ *)aposth=nai, a)poxwrisqh=nai. to\ ga\r a)posth=nai xalepo\n a)ei\ fu/sews, h(\n e)/xei tis a)ei/. kai/toi polloi\ tau=t' e)/paqon: cuno/ntes gnw/mais e(te/rwn mete/balon tou\s tro/pous.
Notes:
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword imperative must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities. See also
alpha 3545.
[2] Presumably extracted from the quotation about to be given.
[3] An loose version of
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1457-1460 (web address 1 below).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 June 2001@20:32:18.
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