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Headword: Dapanan
Adler number: delta,64
Translated headword: to spend
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Used] with an accusative.[1] [Meaning][2] not simply to use up, but to live it up and to be prodigal and to spend with wastefulness; thus Demosthenes [uses this word];[3] and other advocates use this word thus.[4] But Thucycides says "to put the city to expense" for "cast [the city] into great expenses."[5]
Greek Original:
Dapanan: aitiatikêi. ou to analiskein haplôs, alla to lamprôs zên kai spathan kai dapanan têi asôtiai: houtô Dêmosthenês: kai hoi alloi dikanikoi houtôs chrôntai tôi onomati. Thoukudidês de tên polin dapanan phêsin, anti tou eis analômata megala emballein.
Notes:
[1] Similarly in syntactical lexica.
[2] From now on the entry follows Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica fr.300.
[3] See e.g. Demosthenes 7.16.
[4] See e.g. Andocides 4.32.
[5] Thucydides 4.3.3 (web address 1 below).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; historiography; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 July 2002@00:04:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 21 July 2002@05:46:06.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 10 November 2005@10:39:47.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 14 June 2012@06:34:08.
David Whitehead on 6 October 2015@08:56:51.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 10 July 2016@10:53:57.
Matthew Farmer (Tweaked translation to identify Thucydides passage as verbatim quotation) on 7 March 2017@16:25:27.
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