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Headword: *)aquroglwtti/a
Adler number: alpha,770
Translated headword: impudent loquacity
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the unbridled tongue.
Greek Original:
*)aquroglwtti/a: h( a)xali/nwtos glw=ssa.
Notes:
Same headword -- a single word in the Greek -- in ps.-Zonaras but glossed as 'nonsense' (fluari/a).
For this term -- literally playfulness of the tongue -- see e.g. Polybius 8.10.1 (criticizing this in Theopompus). The related adjective appears under alpha 1306 = tau 52.
For the gloss cf. pi 2560.
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; imagery; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 December 1999@02:45:54.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added reference) on 2 May 2002@15:25:15.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 2 May 2002@15:26:58.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 10 June 2003@09:07:22.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords) on 22 January 2012@06:48:02.
David Whitehead on 3 May 2015@09:36:44.

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