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Headword: *)/awron
Adler number: alpha,2856
Translated headword: out-of-season
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning something] improper, distressing, untimely.[1] But some [use this word] to mean unfitting and inconvenient.
Also [sc. attested is] a)/wros, [meaning] raw.[2]
Unripened.
Also [sc. attested is the comparative] a)wro/teron ["more/rather a)/wros"].[3]
Greek Original:
*)/awron: a)prepe\s, a)xare\s, a)/kairon. e)/nioi de\ a)nti\ tou= a)noi/keion kai\ a)su/mforon. kai\ *)/awros, o( w)mo/s. o( a)pe/pantos. kai\ *)awro/teron.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica. The headword, neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective (LSJ's a)/wros A), must be quoted from somewhere.
[2] cf. the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 12.89, where a quite different sense; see under LSJ's a)/wros B.
[3] Perhaps quoted from Plutarch: he twice attributes to Pompey the remark (directed against Lucullus) that, for an old man, luxurious living was more out-of-season than holding office.
Keywords: biography; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; imagery; politics
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 November 2000@22:07:19.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 16 August 2002@05:38:17.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 21 March 2012@11:04:19.
David Whitehead on 2 August 2015@07:05:31.

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