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Headword:
Amelgein
Adler number: alpha,1544
Translated headword: to milk
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative.[1] In a special sense
a)me/lgein is a term for taking untimely profits at an inappropriate moment, just like thieves do.
Aristophanes [writes]: "you milk those foreigners who are profitable."[2]
Amelgein. aitiatikêi. idiôs legetai amelgein, to para ton prosêkonta kairon aôrous tous karpous apospan, hoper hoi kleptontes poiousin. Aristophanês: amelgeis tôn xenôn tous karpimous.
Notes:
[1] Same or similarly in syntactical lexica.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 326 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; imagery
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 July 2000@11:46:53.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; corrected note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 28 February 2001@10:24:32.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 26 July 2006@07:25:53.
David Whitehead (betacode and other cosmetics) on 13 February 2012@07:41:34.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 10 March 2012@23:24:16.
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