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Headword: Ἀγριότης
Adler number: alpha,361
Translated headword: wildness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Impulse.
"For an amazing motive force, it seems, pushing a man in this direction [is?] wildness."[1] In reference to a love of money.
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] ἀγριώτατος ["most/very wild"], [meaing] someone untamed.[2]
Greek Original:
Ἀγριότης: ὁρμή. θαυμαστὴ γάρ τις κίνησις, ὡς ἔοικε, τἀνθρώπου πρὸς τοῦτο τὸ μέρος ... ἀγριότης. ἐπὶ φιλαργυρίας. καὶ Ἀγριώτατος, ὁ ἀνήμερος.
Notes:
cf. generally alpha 358, alpha 359, alpha 360, alpha 362.
[1] Polybius fr. 93 B-W.
[2] Same material, according to Adler, in the Ambrossian Lexicon.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; historiography
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 28 August 1998@16:46:18.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 13 February 2001@05:26:43.
Marcelo Boeri (Modified translation.) on 21 September 2003@20:06:58.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 8 January 2012@09:13:19.
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