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Headword:
Epratton
Adler number: epsilon,2858
Translated headword: they were doing, they were making
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they were plotting, they betrayed.[1] "They were encouraging the Aitolians and were making the city [over] to them."[2]
And elsewhere: a certain man "was badly off, and all his household [was sick ...]".[3]
Greek Original:Epratton: epebouleuon, proedidosan. epespônto tous Aitôlous kai toutois epratton tên polin. kai authis: anêr tis epratte kakôs kai pasa hê oikia autôi.
Notes:
The headword
e)/pratton is third person plural, imperfect indicative active, of Attic
pra/ttw, 'I do' or 'I make'. No single way of translating the verb suits both of the transferred usages illustrated here.
[1] cf. generally
epsilon 2856.
[2]
Polybius 4.17.12.
[3] Part of
Aelian fr. 74g Domingo-Forasté (undifferentiated at fr. 71 Hercher; see also
pi 2650), from
On Divine Manifestations); on the trader Dionysios and the Kolchian slave-girl. Fuller version at
pi 2233, and fullest of all at
epsilon 1395. For the idiom highlighted in the present entry see generally LSJ s.v.
pra/ssw, II.
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 14 March 2007@11:22:22.
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