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Headword:
Aniditi
Adler number: alpha,2454
Translated headword: effortlessly, sweatlessly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] without sweat.[1]
"For these townships were not established effortlessly and carelessly."[2]
And elsewhere: "the soldiers of Cyrus were not ordered to breakfast without [having had] a sweat, so as to eat pleasantly and to be healthy."[3]
And very many other instances.
Greek Original:Aniditi kai Anidrôti: chôris hidrôtos. ou gar anidrôti kai aperimerimnôs tade parestêsanto ta polismata. kai authis: anidrôti pros to ariston ouk êrchonto hoi tou Kurou stratiôtai, dia to hêdeôs esthiein kai hugiainein. kai alla pleista.
Notes:
[1] The headword adverb appears in two variant forms (for the second see again
alpha 2455), both of which mean this. Cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Laws 718E, where the headword occurs.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 1.8.11.
[3] A very loose version of
Xenophon,
Cyropaedia 2.1.29 (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; historiography; history; imagery; medicine; military affairs; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 27 June 2000@12:25:40.
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