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Document Details : Title: Departure without Saying Goodbye Subtitle: A Lexicographical Study Author(s): CLARYSSE, Willy Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Volume: 48 Date: 2011 Pages: 141-148 DOI: 10.2143/BASP.48.0.3209295 Abstract : Lexicographical study of an exceptional use of the adverb ἀλόγως in some papyrus letters of the Roman period. When a person has left without saying goodbye to his correspondent this is regularly regretted by the writer. There are many possible expressions for this situation, including 'NN went away ἀ-λόγως' i.e. 'without saying anything'. This meaning has been misunderstood by editors, who following the dictionaries translate 'without reason, unreasonably'. |
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