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Headword:
Ἄγαυρος
Adler number: alpha,176
Translated headword: wastrel
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A dandy; but some [say] a good-for-nothing; [used] by Ionians [to mean] a pauper, but by Attic writers [to mean] a fop.
Greek Original:Ἄγαυρος: ὁ κομψός: οἱ δὲ κακός: ὑπὸ Ἰώνων δὲ ἄπορος, ὑπὸ δὲ Ἀττικῶν τρυφερός.
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Similar entries in
Hesychius and, especially, Etym. Magn. 6.30-34 -- though there the headword is oxytone
ἀγαυρός . LSJ too (web address 1 below) gives it thus, and understands it as
γαῦρος [
gamma 77,
gamma 78] 'with
α euphon.,
stately, proud'; used of a bull in Hesiod, Theogony 832. However, sense 2 there is '
Ion., euphem. for a beggar'.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 4 June 1999@14:57:53.
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