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Headword:
Ἁβρὰ
βαίνων
Adler number: alpha,70
Translated headword: walking delicately
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Being conceited, being indolent.[1]
"Walking truly delicately, that fellow seemed to be holding his eyebrows up in the air."[2]
Greek Original:Ἁβρὰ βαίνων: θρυπτόμενος, βλακευόμενος. ἐκεῖνος ὄντως ἁβρὰ βαίνων ἐδόκει ἔχων τὰς ὀφρῦς ὑπερηρμένας ἄνω.
Notes:
See generally LSJ s.v.
ἁβρός (web address 1).
[1] The headword phrase has the same or similar glossing in other lexica. It could be extracted from the quotation given, but is more likely to be quoted from
Euripides,
Trojan Women 820. (So Latte on
Hesychius s.v. and more tentatively Theodoridis on
Photius s.v.)
[2] Quotation (transmitted via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; tragedy
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:27:05.
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