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Headword:
Dexios
Adler number: delta,232
Translated headword: [on the] right [side], dexterous, courteous
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] well-disposed, good, friendly.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the comparative]
deciw/teros, meaning good. "And [he] bade anyone of them who [was] right and merciful to take courage."[2]
And
decioi/ is what they used to call those who had been well-educated. "[He] seeking to be clever."
Aristophanes in
Clouds [says this].[3]
"He became a friend to this man and gave him his right hand, and was planning to entertain [him]."[4]
And
Josephus [writes]: "he sought to come down upon the right hand [of friendship]." That is, upon a treaty.[5]
The ancients also used to call
decioi/ those who had military experience and were worthy of praise; but those soldiers who ran away they called litigious and sycophants.[6]
Greek Original:Dexios: eunous, agathos, epitêdeios. kai Dexiôteros, anti tou agathos. kai toutôn hostis dexiôteros kai philoiktirmôn tharrein epekeleuen. Dexious de tous pepaideumenous elegon. zêtôn dexios einai. Aristophanês Nephelais. ho de philos gegone toutôi kai dexian te enebalen autôi, kai hestian emellen. kai Iôsêpos: ho de ezêtei epi dexiai katabênai. toutestin epi sunthêkêi. Dexious elegon hoi palaioi kai tous estrateumenous kai epainou axious: tous de diadidraskontas stratiôtas philodikous kai sukophantas.
Notes:
cf.
delta 231,
delta 233,
delta 234; also
lambda 174,
lambda 193.
[1] Same glossing, variously, in other lexica, and cf.
scholia on
Aristophanes,
Knights 228, on
Homer,
Iliad 18.821, and on
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1370.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 428, with scholion; cf.
sigma 814.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
[5] According to de Boor, this may refer to
Josephus,
Jewish War 5.320.
[6] cf. scholion on
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1114.
Reference:
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 23 (1919) 87 n.1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; food; historiography; history; law; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 March 2005@19:17:32.
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