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Headword: *kourio/ssou
Adler number: kappa,2188
Translated headword: curiosus, informant
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
From the Life of Chrysostom: "being dragged away by the city's informant in the middle of the city."[1]
Greek Original:
*kourio/ssou: e)k tou= bi/ou tou= *xrusosto/mou: e(lko/menos u(po\ tou= kourio/ssou th=s po/lews e)n me/sh| th=| po/lei.
Notes:
The headword, in the genitive case (extracted from the quotation given), is Latin curiosus: LSJ Supplement s.v. kouriw=sos, Lampe s.v. kouriw=sos "official informer to the Emperor", Trapp s.v. kouriosso/s. Moore (1921) fn. 39: "The Curius was the responsible guardian to whom was entrusted the care of minors and women (cf. our word curate): so Curiosus is any functionary employed by a superior official, in this case the comes, for a public duty."
[1] John Chrysostom, Letter I to Pope Innocent PG 52.532 (spelled kouriw/sou in the that Migne edition), on the first exile of Chrysostom; also cited in Palladius, Dialogue on the Life of Chrysostom p. 11 Coleman-Norton. As translated by Moore (1921; web address 1), "Late one evening, when I was being escorted through the streets by the whole of the populace, I was arrested by the city governor's agent in the middle of the city, dragged away by force, and put on board a ship, which set sail by night; when I was summoning a synod for a just trial."
Reference:
Moore, Herbert. 1921. The Dialogue of Palladius Concerning the Life of Chrysostom. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; law; religion
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