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Headword:
Allokoton
Adler number: alpha,1325
Translated headword: unusual
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] opposite, strange, abnormal, disconnected from something else, belonging to something else.
"For they had prepared food using certain unusual grasses and roots on account of the famine."[1]
Appian [writes]: "the consuls, however, were hesitating[2] to attempt an unusual deed; they still expected to capture the city, unprotected as it was."[3]
Greek Original:Allokoton: enantion, xenon, allophues, ex allou asunartêton, allotrion. poais gar tisin allokotois kai rhizais chrômenoi dia ton limon epeponêkesan. Appianos: hoi mentoi hupatoi kai oknôi mê epicheirein es ergon allokoton: eti de kai tên polin anoplon ousan lêpsesthai hêgounto.
Notes:
The headword (which has the same glossing in other lexica) is neuter singular, evidently quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.
[1]
Cassius Dio 55.33.1.
[2] There are manuscript variants here:
w)/knoun seems preferable to the dative case of the cognate noun.
[3] Appian,
Libyca 442.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 May 2000@11:08:57.
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