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Headword:
Ehurêma
Adler number: epsilon,3682
Translated headword: find
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] discovery, invention.
"[It is] obvious that even to someone with a lot of education who strives to know a lot of things, this is also a find."[1] That is, an invention, a regimen.
Also [sc. attested is the plural] 'finds' [to be understood] likewise: discoveries, inventions.
Xenophon [writes]: "when I saw that you had fallen into many intractable circumstances, I considered that it would be a find if I were able to ask of the king that he grant me the ability to take you back safely to Greece."[2]
"He considered as a find even the Magi, who inhabit Babylon and Sousa."[3]
Greek Original:Ehurêma: epiteugma, bouleuma. dêlon de, hôs tôi polla pepaideumenôi kai polla eidenai glichomenôi, kai tauta heurêma esti. toutesti bouleuma, epitêdeuma. kai Ehurêmata homoiôs, epiteugmata, bouleumata. Xenophôn: epei eidon humas eis polla kamêchana empeptôkotas, heurêma epoiêsamên, ei pôs dunaimên para basileôs aitêsasthai, dounai moi aposôsai humas eis tên Hellada. heurêma de kai tous Magous epoieito, hoi Babulôna kai Sousa oikousin.
Notes:
[1] Quotation unidentifiable.
[2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 2.3.18 (web address 1). Here, as often elsewhere, the headword has religious overtones: godsend or the like; see LSJ s.v.
[3]
Philostratus,
Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.18.5. For the Magi cf.
mu 28.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; geography; historiography; history; law; military affairs; philosophy; politics; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 4 February 2008@11:53:20.
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