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Headword:
*lupra/
Adler number: lambda,846
Translated headword: wretched
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one that is] cheap, poor.[1]
"So moderate and self-controlled was Quinctius Cincinnatus who became dictator as to live in a wretched little hut on a small plot of land and to content himself with the farmer's life. When he was called upon to be dictator, he happened to be working at the plow. He washed himself and went out against the enemy. He won a powerful victory and he took the enemy general captive."[2]
"[sc. He was] wretchedly victualed and sleeping rough and using everything much more insufficiently than according to [their] resources."[3]
Greek Original:*lupra/: eu)telh/s, penixra/. ou(/tw de\ h)=n *ku/ntios *kikinna/tos o( gegonw\s dikta/twr me/trios kai\ sw/frwn, w(s e)pi\ kalu/bh| lupra=| kai\ o)li/gw| gh=s me/trw| zh=n to\n au)tourgo\n a)gapa=n te bi/on. o(\s dikta/twr proballo/menos e)/tuxen a)ro/trw| ponou/menos. o(\s a)poniya/menos e)pa/neisi kai\ sumbalw\n toi=s polemi/ois nika=| katakra/tos kai\ to\n strathgo\n tw=n polemi/wn a)/gei ai)xma/lwton. lupra/ te sitou/menos kai\ sklhrw=s e)gkaqeu/dwn kai\ pa=si kexrhme/nos polu\ e)ndee/steron h)\ pro\s th\n e)cousi/an.
Notes:
[1] The headword is Attic feminine nominative singular of the adjective
lupro/s (cf.
lambda 847,
lambda 848). Glossed as in the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 13.243, where
luprh/ occurs.
[2] John of
Antioch fr.48 FHG (4.556), now 85 Roberto; quoted more fully at
kappa 2732.
[3] Adler tentatively attributed this quotation to
Damascius, and Zintzen accepts it as fragment 36 of the
Life of Isidore. For the expression
e)ndee/steron h)\ pro\s th\n e)cousi/an, cf.
Thucydides 4.39.2.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 April 2009@02:18:41.
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