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Headword: *dusmai=s bi/ou
Adler number: delta,1655
Translated headword: at life's settings
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] at the end of [one's] existence.
Greek Original:
*dusmai=s bi/ou: tw=| te/lei th=s zwh=s.
Notes:
Same entry in Hesychius (delta2605) and elsewhere, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The headword phrase is probably quoted from Plato, Laws 770A (even though 'life' has the definite article there); other instances and parallels in LSJ s.v. dusmh/, I, and add e.g. Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 8.12.34.
For the sun's setting(s) see epsilon 3468, sigma 6.
Keywords: daily life; definition; historiography; imagery; philosophy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 May 2003@07:19:38.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 3 June 2003@11:16:22.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 28 June 2004@07:48:13.
David Whitehead (expanded note; another keyword) on 22 July 2012@05:45:31.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 24 December 2014@20:21:11.
David Whitehead on 25 December 2014@03:17:30.
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