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Headword:
Aphormê
Adler number: alpha,4638
Translated headword: starting-point
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning the point] from which someone starts and is saved.[1]
In a special sense in the Athenian writers: whenever someone gives monetary capital, it is called "means".[2]
Greek Original:Aphormê: aph' hês hormômenos tis sôizetai. idiôs para tois Attikois, hotan tis argurion dôsei enthêkên, aphormê kaleitai.
Notes:
[1] The gloss (classified by Adler as 'Ecl?') is etymological, and hard to convey exactly in English.
[2] From Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v. See generally LSJ s.v. (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: Christianity; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 October 2000@06:01:51.
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