Τρωγοδύται
ὁ χρόνος ἐστὶ δάνος, τὸ ζῆν πικρός ἐσθ' ὁ δανίσας → time is a loan, and he who lent you life is a hard creditor | time is on loan and life's lender is a prick
English (LSJ)
[ῠ], οἱ, name of an Ethiopian people, Hdt.4.183 (codd.ABC), LXX2 Ch.12.3 (cod. B), Pap. in Class.Phil.19.233,234 (iii B. C.), OGI70 (Egypt, iii B. C.), PTheb.Bank9.2 (i B. C.), Sammelb. 4050, Cic.Div.2.44.93, Plin.HN6.173, al., Mela 1.23, Mart.Cap.6.593, al., v.l. in D.S.1.37: sg. in PCair.Zen.40.2 (iii B. C.), PSI4.332.14 (iii B. C.): hence Τρωγοδῠτικός, ή, όν, A belonging to the Τρωγοδύται, σμύρνα, cf. τρωγλῖτις (where Τρωγλ-) ; -κή, ἡ, their country, D.S. 1.30 (cf. p.lxxi Vogel), Plin.HN6.169, al.; also ἡ Τρωγοδύτις [ῠ] (Τρωγλ-codd.), ιδος, Plu.2.939d, Ael.NA17.3:—the spelling Τρωγλο- (as if A Cave-dwellers) is known to Str.1.2.34 (unless the passage is interpolated) and is freq. f.l. in codd. (so always in codd.Str., as 16.4.4, 17.1.13, al., although he wrote it ἄνευ τοῦ λ acc. to Str.Chr. 16.55), cf. Arist.HA597a9, Dsc.2.160, Hsch.
Greek Monolingual
οἱ, Α
οι Τρωγλοδύτες.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ Παρλλ. τ. της λ. Τρωγλοδύται, χωρίς να είναι δυνατόν να εξακριβωθεί ποιος από τους δύο τ. είναι ο αρχικός].
