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Headword:
Apedokimazen
Adler number: alpha,2978
Translated headword: used to reject
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] used to dishonourably insult, belittle.[1]
"And on the whole he used to reject men moderate in custom who also took a care for their own lives, but he used to honour and promote spendthrifts and those who lived for drink and dice."[2]
Greek Original:Apedokimazen: atimôs hubrizen, exephaulize. kai katholou tous men kosmious tois êthesi kai tôn idiôn biôn epimeloumenous apedokimaze, tous de poluteleis kai zôntas en methais kai kubois etima kai proêgen.
Notes:
The headword is probably (though not demonstrably) extracted from the quotation given.
[1] cf.
alpha 3299.
[2]
Polybius 8.9.7, quoting
Theopompus (FGrH 115 F225) on Philip II of Macedon.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 December 2000@00:01:03.
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