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Headword:
Empesôn
tois
pragmasin
Adler number: epsilon,1011
Translated headword: falling on the matters
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] beginning the deeds.[1] "[It was he] who, falling on the matters that were at hand, dismissing and expelling anger and willfulness, and judging only freedom from bribery to be virtue, brought the matters to ruin."[2]
Greek Original:Empesôn tois pragmasin: arxas tôn pragmatôn. hos empesôn tois pragmasi tois hupo cheira, ton thumon kai tên orgên apheis kai ekcheôn kai monên aretên hêgoumenos to adôrodokêton ekakôse ta pragmata.
Notes:
[1] The headword phrase is presumably extracted from the quotation given (though the latter lacks the
nu ephelkustikon).
[2] Adler notes the attribution of this quotation to
Eunapius by the Dutch scholar
Tiberius Hemsterhuys (1685-1766. The phrase "at hand"
u(po\ xei=ra is repeated at
upsilon 638.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 February 2007@01:35:09.
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