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Headword:
Alloprosallos
Adler number: alpha,1333
Translated headword: fickle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] easily changed.[1]
One who is inclined first towards one thing, then to another.
"Not only was King Prusias craven, but he was also fickle as regards hardships."[2]
Greek Original:Alloprosallos: eumetablêtos. ho pote men heterôi, pote de allôi proskeimenos. ou gar monon deilos ên ho Prousias basileus, alla kai pros tas kakopatheias alloprosallos.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in
Photius and elsewhere.
[2] An abridgement of
Polybius 36.15.1-2 (on King Pr(o)usias II of
Bithynia, a region in northern Asia Minor, Barrington Atlas map 52 grid E4). Editors of
Polybius, however, print the more commonplace adjective
a)llo/trios. For this version, within a lengthier quotation, see
pi 2913.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 May 2000@04:45:43.
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