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Headword:
Agasthentos
Adler number: alpha,167
Translated headword: amazed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] dumbstruck, marvelling. "With him amazed at the conduct".[1]
Also [sc. attested is the nominative] a)gasqei/s.[2] "Amazed at both the city and the people he remained for three days."[3]
Greek Original:Agasthentos: ekplagentos, thaumasantos. tou de agasthentos epi têi proairesei. kai Agastheis. ho de agastheis epi te têi polei kai tois anthrôpois epemene treis hêmeras.
Notes:
The headword--presumably extracted from the first quotation given--is the masculine (and neuter) genitive singular, aorist passive participle, of
a)/gamai. The words used to gloss it are likewise genitive aorist participles.
cf. generally
alpha 138,
alpha 141,
alpha 166.
[1] A possible echo (as Adler noted) of
Polybius 39.3.11
a)gasqe\n to\ plh=qos au)tou= th\n proai/resin ("the people, admiring his conduct").
[2] Again, this is presumably extracted from the quotation which now follows (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti).
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 23 June 1999@13:16:08.
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