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Headword:
*)aciw/teros
Adler number: alpha,2831
Translated headword: cheaper
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] fairer in price.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] a)ciwte/ras, like eu)wnote/ras.[2] "I have never seen cheaper anchovies".[3] [Meaning] of a worthy price. For axion in Attic [writers] [means] cheap.[4]
Greek Original:*)aciw/teros: eu)wno/teros. kai\ *)aciwte/ras, o(moi/ws eu)wnote/ras. ou) pw/pot' a)fu/as ei)=don a)ciwte/ras. th=s a)ci/as timh=s. a)/cion ga\r para\ *)attikoi=s to\ eu)/wnon.
Notes:
[1] The headword is the comparative degree, masculine nominative singular, of the adjective
a)/cios. It must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.
[2] The same comparative adjective but in the feminine accusative plural; presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Knights 645 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
[4] cf.
alpha 2813,
alpha 2814,
alpha 2815.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 November 2000@00:43:03.
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