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Headword:
Adeia
Adler number: alpha,447
Translated headword: impunity
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] relaxation, lack of fear.[1]
Josephus [writes]: "when the conspirators saw the Romans they initiated a wicked agreement and asked one another: why should they stay there? Why on earth should they endure three walls built up to encroach on their breathing and with the war making war on itself with impunity?"[2]
Adeia: anesis, aphobia. Iôsêpos: hoi de stasiastai tous Rhômaious horôntes kakês homonoias katêrchonto, kai logon allêlois edidosan, ti menoien; ti pathontes aneschointo tria tais anapnoais autôn anaphrassomena teichê kai tou polemou met' adeias antipolemizontos heauton.
Notes:
[1] See also
alpha 448.
[2] An approximation -- the final participle should be
a)ntipoli/zontos, "building itself up as an opposing city" -- of
Josephus,
Jewish War 5.72-3 (web address 1 below); cf.
pi 1884.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 March 2001@19:07:20.
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