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Headword: *)/asxolos
Adler number: alpha,4303
Translated headword: leisure-less
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one who does not have free time. For sxolh/ ["leisure"] [means] free time in customary speech.[1]
"Neither without necessity to tell someone or to write in a letter that I am without leisure, nor in such a manner continually to excuse neglect of the duties required by my relation to those with whom I live, citing the matters which occupy [me]."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)sxolou=mai ["I am busy with"]: [used] with an accusative. Also [attested are its forms] a)sxolei=tai ["is busy with"] and a)sxolei=sqai ["to be busy with"]. Menander says all these things.[3] But Philemon also [has active voice] a)sxolei=.[4]
Greek Original:
*)/asxolos: o( mh\ eu)kairw=n. sxolh\ ga\r h( e)n th=| legome/nh| sunhqei/a| eu)kairi/a. mhde\ xwri\s a)na/gkhs le/gein pro/s tina h)\ e)n e)pistolh=| gra/fein, o(/ti a)/sxolo/s ei)mi, mhde\ dia\ toiou/tou tro/pou sunexw=s paraitei=sqai ta\ kata\ ta\s pro\s tou\s sumbiou=ntas sxe/seis kaqh/konta, proballo/menon ta\ periestw=ta pra/gmata. kai\ *)asxolou=mai: ai)tiatikh=|. kai\ a)sxolei=tai, kai\ a)sxolei=sqai. pa/nta tau=ta *me/nandros le/gei. *filh/mwn de\ kai\ a)sxolei=.
Notes:
[1] cf. sigma 1802.
[2] Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.12 (translation at web address 1).
[3] Menander fr. 999 Kock, now 882 K.-A.
[4] Philemon fr. 220 Kock, now 184 K.-A.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 March 2002@22:31:12.
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