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Headword:
Aparaklêtoi
Adler number: alpha,2916
Translated headword: volunteers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning those acting] of their own volition.
Thucydides [writes]: "[many] of the independent Thracians were following, as volunteers, for plunder"[1]
Greek Original:Aparaklêtoi: automatoi. Thoukudidês: tôn autonomôn Thraikôn aparaklêtoi eph' harpagên êkolouthoun.
Notes:
The headword, masculine nominative plural, is probably extracted from the quotation given.
See also
alpha 2917.
[1]
Thucydides 2.98.3 (web address 1 below).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 November 2000@05:32:16.
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