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Headword: *xrhma/tisis
Adler number: chi,485
Translated headword: operation
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] collection of affairs.
Aelian [writes]: "utterly corrupted by the sacrilege and the unholy operation, he took the most bitter and most horrible pay."[1]
Greek Original:
*xrhma/tisis: xrhma/twn sunagwgh/. *ai)liano/s: o( de\ th=s qeosuli/as te kai\ a)qe/smou xrhmati/sews diafqarei\s to\n misqo\n h)ne/gkato tou=ton pikro/tato/n te kai\ pikrwde/staton.
Note:
[1] Aelian fr. 189 Domingo-Forasté (186 Hercher); I have accepted Kuhn's emendation of pikrwde/staton ("most bitter-seeming?"; not in LSJ) to frikwde/staton ("most horrible"). [Note however [DW] that Hercher prints prepwde/staton, "most fitting" (ironic).]
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; historiography; history; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 April 2008@01:23:55.
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David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 April 2008@06:06:30.
Catharine Roth (updated reference) on 17 October 2012@01:24:07.
David Whitehead on 13 November 2013@05:53:29.
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