Enchiridion [Sentence 064]

Text and Analysis

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μέχρι

preposition

as long as

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δ’

δέ

particle

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ἂν

ἄν

particle

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διδῷ,

δίδωμι

verb

PAS.3S

He gives

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ὡς

conjunction

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ἀλλοτρίου

ἀλλότριος

adjective

GSY

belonging to another

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αὐτοῦ

αὐτός

pronoun

GSY

of it

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ἐπιμελοῦ,

ἐπιμελέομαι

verb

PMD.2S

take care

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ὡς

conjunction

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τοῦ

ὁ

article

GSY

of the

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πανδοκείου

πανδοκεῖον

noun

GSN

inn

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οἱ

ὁ

article

NPM

the

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παριόντες.

πάρειμι

verb

PAP.NP-

passers-by

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Translations

While he gives it to you to possess, take care of it; but don't view it as your own, just as travelers view a hotel.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)

While he permits you to possess it, hold it as something not your own; as do travellers at an inn.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)

So long as he may allow you, take care of it as a thing which belongs to another, as travellers do with their inn.George Long (1890)

As long as He gives it you, take care of it, but not as your own; treat it as passers-by treat an inn.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)