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Headword: Tantaleioi
Adler number: tau,78
Translated headword: Tantalean
Vetting Status: low
Translation:

Trembling.[1]
And [there is] a proverb: Tantalean punishments; in reference to those who have good things but are not permitted to enjoy them; like the Byzantines who did not dare to spend time outside the city.[2]

Greek Original:

Tantaleioi: tromikoi. kai paroimia: Tantaleioi timôriai: epi tôn agatha men echontôn, mê sunchôroumenôn de apolauein autôn: hôs hoi Buzantioi, mê tolmôntes exô tou asteos diagein.

Notes:

[1] Masculine nominative plural(s), similarly glossed in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere.
[2] cf. Apostolius 16.9, Polybius 4.45.6 (where the problem is frequent attacks by the neighboring Thracians: web address 1).

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Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 September 2004@00:03:23.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 22 September 2004@03:09:52.

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