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Headword: Eparas
Adler number: epsilon,1977
Translated headword: urging
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he] persuading.[1]
"Urging the boldest men, with hopes of benefactions, to become initiators of unholy deeds."[2]
And elsewhere: "praising greatly, and urging in various ways including [the argument] that it would be sufficient for his entourage to buy the supplies at the going price."[3]
And elsewhere: "and faking the death of the king/emperor and urging many men to take a view advantageous to him, even from the man's faction, he readily assembled a large force."[4]
Greek Original:
Eparas: peisas. thrasutatous andras elpisin euergesiôn eparas anosiôn ergôn archêgous genesthai. kai authis: meizonôs epainesas, tois te allois eparas kai hoti apochrôn estai tois amph' hauton ôneisthai ta epitêdeia tês xumbainousês timês. kai authis: kai katapseusamenos tou basileôs thanaton kai eparas pollous ta lusitelê hoi phronein kai tês ekeinou meridos einai êthroise dunamin rhadiôs pollên.
Notes:
[1] Aorist participle (masculine nominative singular) of e)pai/rw, probably (though not necessarily: cf. Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon s.v., where the gloss is a)napei/sas) extracted from one of the passages which follow; cf. epsilon 2195, epsilon 2197, epsilon 2201 (and gamma 239).
[2] A close approximation of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.58.4. On this identification see Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXVIII.
[3] Arrian, incerta fr.13 Roos/Wirth; cf. alpha 3652, xi 102.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 August 2007@06:22:23.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 21 August 2007@19:07:11.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1) on 22 August 2007@03:15:43.
David Whitehead (source identification) on 10 October 2011@09:15:57.
David Whitehead on 30 September 2012@09:17:20.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 30 September 2012@22:43:56.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 22 December 2014@00:38:37.
David Whitehead on 20 January 2016@03:11:59.

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