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Headword:
*dia/konos
Adler number: delta,590
Translated headword: deacon, messenger
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The alpha [is] long.
"He was a clergyman, with the rank of deacon."[1]
And Philoctetes [in
Sophocles says]: "but either they have died,[2] or, as I think likely, the messengers considering me unimportant hastened their voyage home."[3]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb]
diakonw=. [Used] with a dative.[4]
Greek Original:*dia/konos: makro\n to\ a. o( de\ h)=n i(ereu/s, dia/konos th\n timh/n. kai\ *filokth/ths: a)ll' h)\ teqnh/kas', h)\ ta\ tw=n diako/nwn, w(s ei)ko\s oi)=mai, tou)mo\n e)n smikrw=| me/ros poiou/menoi, to\n oi)/kad' h)/peigon sto/lon. kai\ *diakonw=. dotikh=|.
Notes:
[1] Abbreviated from
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 7.16.5. This refers to
Pelagius, later Pope
Pelagius I, not the earlier
Pelagius who disputed with Augustine; see also
delta 1330.
[2] The manuscripts of
Sophocles (see next note) have the singular: "he has died."
[3]
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 497-499.
[4] Likewise in syntactical lexica.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 4 July 2003@14:26:23.
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