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Headword: Alêtês
Adler number: alpha,1202
Translated headword: vagabond
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] wanderer.
"[He] gathered those living a vagabond life."[1]
And elsewhere: "[they were] exposing fugitives and vagabonds."[2]
But a)lh=tis [is the equivalent of] feminine planh=tis.
Greek Original:
Alêtês: ho planêtês. alêtên bion tribontas êthroise. kai authis: alêtas kai phugadas apophêinantes. Alêtis de thêlukôs hê planêtis.
Notes:
cf. alpha 1163, alpha 1201.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable (but for the phrase 'a vagabond life' in the accusative case, as here, cf. Periander in Herodotus 3.52.4).
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 May 2000@19:39:02.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 13 June 2002@06:39:43.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; more keywords; tweaks) on 23 February 2011@10:25:19.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 6 February 2012@03:26:51.
David Whitehead on 31 May 2015@10:49:15.

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