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Headword:
Exallôs
Adler number: epsilon,1529
Translated headword: exceptionally
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to an extreme. "For simultaneously to sacrifice and to propitiate the divinity, beseeching the altars exceptionally, which Prousias the king used to do, falling on his knees and acting like a woman, and at the same time to defile these things and to display one's contempt toward the divinity through the destruction of these things, are the works of a soul that is raving and standing on the outside of rationality."[1]
Greek Original:Exallôs: kath' huperochên. to gar hama men thuein kai exilaskesthai to theion, liparounta tous bômous exallôs, hoper eiôthe Prousias ho basileus poiein gonupetôn kai gunaikizomenos, hama de tauta lumainesthai kai dia tês toutôn kataphthoras tên es to theion hubrin diatithesthai, luttôntos erga kai psuchês exestêkuias kai logismôn.
Note:
[1] A paraphrase of
Polybios 32.15.7-8 (web address 1; = Constantine Porphyogenitus,
Excerpta de virtutibus 2.199.7). The same passage is paraphrased differently at
epsilon 1528 and
pi 2914.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; medicine; religion; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 August 2007@04:08:06.
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