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Headword:
Alkê
Adler number: alpha,1277
Translated headword: might
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] strength, power.[1]
Hesiod [writes]: "for the Olympian gave might to the sons of Aeacus, intelligence to the sons of Amythaon, and wealth to the sons of Atreus."[2]
And
Polybius [writes]: "for the might of words also knows [how] to disdain death."[3]
Greek Original:Alkê: ischus, dunamis. Hêsiodos: alkên men gar edôken Olumpios Aiakidêisi, noun d' Amuthaonidais, plouton de per' Atreidêisi. kai Polubios: oide gar kai logôn alkê thanatou kataphronein.
Notes:
[1] Similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 4.245.
[2] Hesiod fr. 203 Merkelbach-West (in
Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F33), on Zeus.
[3]
Polybius fr. 5 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 514) that this fragment is in fact Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 5.5.1.
References:
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: definition; economics; epic; ethics; historiography; imagery; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 26 August 2000@23:30:27.
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