germane

Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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adj.

Met., akin, nearly allied: P. and V. συγγενής. ἀδελφός, προσήκων, P. οἰκεῖος, σύννομος.

germāne: adv., v. germanus.

germānē (germanus), réellement, fidèlement : Aug. Civ. 2, 13.

germānē, Adv. (1. germanus), echt, animus germ. Romanus, Augustin. de civ. dei 2, 13. p. 68, 14 D. ²