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Headword:
Ethelokakôs
Adler number: epsilon,304
Translated headword: wilfully doing wrong
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] intentionally choosing evil.[1]
Appian [writes]: "the army was unwilling to obey the general because of a grudge. They intentionally fought badly and fled, bandaging their bodies as if they had been wounded. They destroyed their tents and tried to retreat, accusing the general of inexperience."[2]
And elsewhere: "[they were] intentionally doing harm to him for many reasons."[3]
Greek Original:Ethelokakôs: hekousiôs to kakon eklegomenôn. Appianos: tôi de stratêgôi stratos ên duspeithês hupo mnêsikakias, ethelokakôs te êgônizonto kai epheugon epidêsamenoi ta sômata hôs tetrômenoi kai tas skênas dieluon kai anachôrein epecheiroun apeirian epikalountes tôi stratêgôi. kai authis: ethelokakountes autôi dia pleious aitias.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. (The final participle in the glossing phrase is, variously, this genitive plural
e)klegome/nwn or
e)klelegme/non.) The headword, an adverbial form of
e)qelo/kakos, must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps (though not necessarily) the first passage which follows here; cf. generally
epsilon 302,
epsilon 303.
[2] Appian,
Italica 7.
[3] Once attributed to
Menander Protector (fr.68 FHG, 4.269) and connected with
alphaiota 322; Blockley, however, does not accept the present passage as an authentic fragment of
Menander. For the verb cf.
epsilon 302.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 December 2005@22:24:03.
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