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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) An official responsible for training and anointing athletes for the games..
The anointing of the bodies of the youths, and strewing them with dust, before they commenced their exercises, as well as the regulation of their diet, was the duty of the aliptae.
Marcus's description of himself with his alipta, then, has a whiff of the racy/disreputable, and the alipta is someone far down on the social scale (compare the rest of the letter).
Alipta is said to be of two types, ragalipta and rupalipta. The former is a combination of nada with svara and raga, while the latter is a combination of nada with raga and svara.
Use alipta when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Alipta means (historical) An official responsible for training and anointing athletes for the games..
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The anointing of the bodies of the youths, and strewing them with dust, before they commenced their exercises, as well as the regulation of their diet, was the duty of the aliptae.
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