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Headword:
Embrithes
Adler number: epsilon,958
Translated headword: weighty
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] solid, sturdy.[1]
"[...] the opinion which had prevailed concerning the emperor Justin, that he was very serious and careful."[2]
"And Peter the rhetorician and teacher was serious and unassailable in the practice of rhetoric to appease the barbarians' attitudes."[3]
Greek Original:Embrithes: sterron, stibaron. tên peri basileôs Ioustinou kratêsasan doxan, hôs esti mala embrithês te kai katêkribômenos. kai Petros ho rhêtôr kai magistros embrithês te ên kai analôtos en tôi rhêtoreuein katamalaxai phronêmata barbarika.
Notes:
cf.
epsilon 959,
epsilon 960,
epsilon 961,
epsilon 962.
[1] The headword is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective; same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (there are numerous possibilities).
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 6.2 Blockley; quoted again at
iota 449.
[3]
Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley; quoted more fully at
pi 1406.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 February 2007@00:19:40.
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