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Headword: *)apode/on
Adler number: alpha,3283
Translated headword: lacking, needing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] what is disagreeable.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the genitive plural] a)podeo/ntwn ["lacking"], [meaning] falling short.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the infinitive] a)podei=n ["to lack"], [meaning] to fall short.[3]
Josephus [writes]: "so an infantryman has little need of burden-bearing creatures; that is, mules."[4]
"So far did he fall short of claiming the kingdom which had already been provided for him and which was his by right of birth."[5]
Greek Original:
*)apode/on: to\ a)pare/skon. kai\ *)apodeo/ntwn, leipo/ntwn, a)poleipome/nwn. kai\ *)apodei=n, to\ a)polei/pesqai. *)iw/shpos: w(s o)li/gon a)podei=n tw=n a)xqoforou/ntwn zw/|wn, h)/toi o)re/wn, to\n pezo\n a)/ndra. to/son de\ a)podei=n tou= th\n peporisme/nhn h)/dh au)tw=| kai\ a)po\ ge/nous prosh/kousan basilei/an a)fele/sqai.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword, which must be quoted from somewhere, is neuter singular of this adjective.
[2] This too must be quoted from somewhere.
[3] Illustrated by the two quotations about to be given.
[4] Josephus, Jewish War 3.95 (web address 1 below).
[5] Arrian, Parthica fr. 48 Roos-Wirth.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 27 September 2001@08:03:46.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 28 September 2001@03:11:02.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 2 April 2012@04:26:35.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 5 May 2015@23:35:10.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 5 May 2015@23:36:41.
David Whitehead on 27 August 2015@10:43:09.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation and link) on 27 October 2018@02:07:33.

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