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Headword: Aklêti
Adler number: alpha,898
Translated headword: unbidden, uninvited, unsummoned
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] without invitation.[1]
And [there is] a proverb: "friends party at friends' [houses] uninvited".[2] Similar to this: "good men go to good men's feasts of their own volition".[3]
Greek Original:
Aklêti: chôris klêseôs. kai paroimia: Aklêti kômazousin eis philous philoi. homoia têi, automatoi agathoi agathôn epi daitas hientai.
Notes:
The headword is an adverb in the Greek.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2] cf. Zenobius 2.46 and other paroemiographers.
[3] Hesiod fr. 264.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; poetry; proverbs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 February 2000@03:24:16.
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