- Cut-purse
- subs.Ar. and P. βαλλαντιοτόμος, ὁ.Be a cut-purse, v.: P. βαλλαντιοτομεῖν.
Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language. 2014.
Cut-purse
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