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Headword:
Archeplouton
Adler number: alpha,4086
Translated headword: established-wealthy, old-money, old-rich
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone] making a beginning of wealth [or: ruling over wealth] and set to inherit the ancient fortune.
Sophocles [writes]: "and do not send me dishonoured from this land, but [let me remain] established-wealthy."[1]
Greek Original:Archeplouton: archonta ploutou, kai tên archaian tuchên apolêpsomenon. Sophoklês: kai mê m' atimon têsd' aposteilête gês, all' archeplouton.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is accusative singular of the adjective
a)rxe/ploutos, a variant (attested only here) of
a)rxaio/ploutos.
[1]
Sophocles,
Electra 71-72 (web address 1 below), with comment from the
scholia there. The quotation continues at
kappa 789.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 April 2001@21:32:16.
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