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Headword:
Echemuthon
Adler number: epsilon,3988
Translated headword: confidential, reserved
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] a secret mystery, or a wise [person].[1]
"He [Isidore] was reserved for the most part and a person of hidden thoughts, but he had poured out his whole soul towards the common increase of virtue and the diminution of vice."[2]
Greek Original:Echemuthon: mustêrion krupton, ê phronimon. ên de echemuthos es ta malista kai krupsinous, all' eis ge sunauxêsin aretês kai kakias meiôsin holên exekechuto tên psuchên.
Notes:
cf. generally
epsilon 3986,
epsilon 3987,
epsilon 3989.
[1] Likewise in other lexica. The headword is masculine/feminine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this two-termination adjective. Either way it must be quoted from somewhere (other than the quotation appended here, which uses the nominative).
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 60 Zintzen (28 Asmus); cf.
iota 122,
mu 850,
omicron 146.
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 23 January 2004@20:25:54.
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