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Headword:
Zêlôsai
Adler number: zeta,65
Translated headword: to envy, to emulate, to admire, to be zealous
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to emulate.[1]
Herodotus [writes]:[2] "if any one of us tries to emulate their diet, he will fare no better than those who take hemlock or aconite or hellebore".[3]
Zêlôsai: mimêsasthai. Hêrodotos: hôn ei tis par' hêmin zêlôsai tên diaitan epicheirêsei, ouden ameinon diakeisetai tôn to kôneion prosenenkamenôn ê tên akoniton ê tên helleboron.
Notes:
[1] Aorist infinitive(s), the headword one presumably extracted from the quotation given. For the equivalence cf.
zeta 60.
[2] No: the quotation is from the emperor Julian,
Epistles 155, talking about historians and geographers who describe ethnic groups with a diet different from ours.
Herodotus 3.19-25 and 4.186 describes Fish-eaters and Meat-eaters (web addresses 1 and 2 below), which are mentioned in the part of the letter preceding this (see the full version at
eta 536).
[3] Hemlock, aconite, and hellebore are poisonous plants: see
kappa 2034,
alpha 924, and
epsilon 771.
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 417-418
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
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Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; historiography; medicine
Translated by: Stefano Sanfilippo on 1 June 2005@15:52:30.
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