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Headword: Apautomolêsai
Adler number: alpha,2948
Translated headword: to desert
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to depart; to flee.[1]
"They were carrying their own food, some because they lacked attendants, others because they mistrusted [them]. For most had deserted."[2]
Greek Original:
Apautomolêsai: anachôrêsai: pheuxasthai. epheron de ta sphetera autôn sitia, hoi men aporiai akolouthôn, hoi de apistiai. apêutomolêkeisan gar hoi pleistoi.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The headword, aorist active infinitive of this verb, is presumably quoted from somewhere.
[2] As Favuzzi [see under alpha 1990] 54 points out, this quotation is a loose version of Thucydides 7.75.5 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 22 December 2000@21:39:43.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added keyword) on 24 December 2000@09:19:29.
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 18 August 2002@06:31:39.
David Whitehead (modified n.1) on 7 June 2010@08:07:19.
David Whitehead on 25 March 2012@07:59:43.
David Whitehead on 4 August 2015@03:11:40.
Catharine Roth (added a link) on 6 September 2015@00:54:40.
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