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Anomos
Adler number: alpha,2555
Translated headword: lawless, unlawful
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] illegal.[1]
But[2] a)/nwmos [spelled] with omega [means] he who has no shoulder. From which the descendants of Pelops are also called this: shoulderless.[3]
Also [sc. attested is the comparative] a)nwmo/teros ["more/rather shoulderless"].
Greek Original:Anomos: ho paranomos. Anômos de dia tou ô megalou, ho mê echôn ômon. ex hou kai anômoi Pelopidai houtô kaloumenoi. kai anômoteros.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2] What now follows has its own entry at
alpha 2591.
[3] "As a child, [Pelops, believed to be the eponym of the Peloponnese] was killed and served up by his father Tantalus, in order to test his guests the Gods. Only Demeter, mourning the loss of her daughter, failed to notice, and ate part of his shoulder; the other Gods restored him to life and and replaced his shoulder with ivory" (OCD(4) pp.1101-2).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 July 2000@23:50:44.
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