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Headword: Παλίνδρομος
Adler number: pi,96
Translated headword: back-running
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Backwards-hastening.[1]
"After sending him twenty minai, he received them back again."[2]
Greek Original:
Παλίνδρομος: ὀπισθόρμητος. πέμψας αὐτῷ μνᾶς εἴκοσι παλινδρόμους ἀπέλαβε.
Notes:
[1] Compound of the adverb palin and the verbal root drom-: LSJ entry at web address 1. (Cf. pi 90.)
[2] Literally: he took them away as back-running. The phrase is from Diogenes Laertius 2.65: Aristippus (alpha 3908) attempts to send his teacher Socrates some of the money he has earned in fees, but Socrates refuses it.
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; imagery; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 July 2001@13:41:36.
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Catharine Roth on 17 July 2001@13:31:54.
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