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Headword: Automolôs
Adler number: alpha,4510
Translated headword: deserter-like
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] traitorously.[1]
And [the related verb] au)tomolh=sai ["to desert"] is to betray one's own men and to give up and to go over to the enemy in alliance.[2]
But au)to/molos ["deserter"] [is] one who seeks protection.[3]
Greek Original:
Automolôs: prodotikôs. kai Automolêsai esti to prodounai tous idious kai easai kai apelthein pros tous hupenantious epi summachiai. Automolos de ho prosphux.
Notes:
[1] The headword adverb has the same or similar glossing in other lexica. It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps, as Latte on Hesychius s.v. claims, Sophocles (fr. 691).
[2] See also eta 652.
[3] This noun and its gloss are reversed at pi 2849.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; military affairs; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 August 2001@18:16:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword; cosmetics) on 3 August 2001@04:46:35.
Catharine Roth (added keyword and cross-references) on 9 November 2006@18:16:59.
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 10 November 2006@03:17:36.
David Whitehead (expanded note; tweaking) on 3 May 2012@07:08:13.
David Whitehead on 11 September 2015@04:20:46.
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