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Headword: Diastolê
Adler number: delta,772
Translated headword: expansiveness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] discrimination, prominence.
"There is no need to wonder, if [= that] we are narrating rather ambitiously the affairs involving Scipio and reporting with expansiveness every one of his statements."[1]
Greek Original:
Diastolê: diachôrêsis, exochê. ou chrê thaumazein, ei philotimoteron exêgoumetha ta kata ton Skipiôna kai pan to rhêthen hup' autou meta diastolês exangellomen.
Note:
[1] Polybios 36.8.6 (preserved only here).
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: William Hutton on 17 December 2003@10:05:07.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 17 December 2003@10:15:35.
David Whitehead on 2 July 2012@07:23:13.
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