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Headword:
*)apo/sitos
Adler number: alpha,3522
Translated headword: abstinent, fasting
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] without food, without nourishment.[1]
"[Justinian] also often used to remain abstinent for two days and nights, and he was abstinent during the days of Pascha, surviving on small quantities of water."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)positw=, [meaning] I avoid food.
Greek Original:*)apo/sitos: a)/sitos, a)/trofos. o( de\ kai\ a)po/sitos h(me/ras te kai\ nu/ktas du/o polla/kis e)/mene, kai\ tai=s tou= *pa/sxa h(me/rais a)po/sitos h)=n, u(/dati braxei= a)pozw=n. kai\ *)apositw=, to\ katalimpa/nw to\n si=ton.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in other lexica.
[2]
Procopius,
Secret History 13.29-30. The "days of Pascha" would be the last days of Holy Week, concluding with the celebration of the Resurrection.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 June 2001@18:59:03.
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