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Headword:
Apozên
Adler number: alpha,3308
Translated headword: to eke out a living
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [verb that means] to live cheaply. But to live [means living] with luxury and extravagance.[1]
"To acquire so many things contentedly as to eke out a living from them."[2] Meaning [to live] moderately.
Greek Original:Apozên: to eutelôs zên. zên de to meta truphês kai poluteleias. tosauta agapôn kektêsthai, hosa apozên ap' autôn. anti tou metria.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.2.2, where this infinitive appears: see web address 1. For this distinction between
zh=n and
a)pozh=n see again
zeta 72.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; historiography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 February 2001@10:04:28.
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