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Headword: Apothesthai
Adler number: alpha,3315
Translated headword: to set aside, store away
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to hoard, to keep.[1] "Wishing to make no time idle, he proposed that the period of inactivity in winter be set aside for some useful business."[2]
Greek Original:
Apothesthai: apothêsaurisai, apotamieusai. ho de boulomenos mêdena chronon argon poiein, proetheto to tou cheimônos aprakton eis tinas chreias apothesthai.
Notes:
The headword, aorist middle infinitive of a)poti/qhmai, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] cf. alpha 3317.
[2] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr.188 Zintzen (216 Asmus). According to Zintzen, this passage refers to Asclepiodotus (alpha 4174).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 February 2001@10:17:15.
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David Whitehead (modified headword, translation, note; added keyword) on 10 February 2001@10:33:23.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 20 August 2002@09:27:00.
Catharine Roth (expanded note, added keyword) on 16 September 2010@00:35:56.
David Whitehead (more notes; another keyword) on 16 September 2010@03:00:35.
David Whitehead on 2 April 2012@07:38:29.
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