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Headword:
Apokoitos
Adler number: alpha,3373
Translated headword: sleeping away, far from
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] far from the bed [koi/th]. "But he to his credit was keeping the night-vigil far from cowardice."[1]
Greek Original:Apokoitos: porrô tês koitês. ho de têi dokêsei katepannuchizeto tês deilias apokoitos.
Notes:
The headword adjective began life with a specific sense (in e.g.
Aeschines 2.127) but acquired the more general one illustrated here.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 5.1.11.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 25 February 2001@13:48:28.
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