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Headword:
Ekneurisas
Adler number: epsilon,512
Translated headword: having enfeebled
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning [he] having rendered [them] helpless/useless.[1]
"He responded after cutting them all down, in order that he might enfeeble much of Rome's strength".[2]
And elsewhere: "[there was a man] (if we could grant him to be a man) enfeebled in spirit by the works of
Epicurus, and become effeminate".[3]
Greek Original:Ekneurisas: anti tou adunatous katastêsas. ho de apekrinato katakopsas pantas, hina pollên dunamin tês Rhômês ekneurisêi. kai authis: ei doiêmen auton andra einai, dia tôn Epikourou logôn tên psuchên ekneuristheis kai thêlus genomenos.
Notes:
For the verb
e)kneuri/zw (with figurative as well as literal applications) see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] Aorist participle (masculine nominative singular) of the verb, evidently quoted from somewhere.
[2] Quotation (also in ps.-
Zonaras) unidentifiable.
[3]
Aelian fr. 10c Domingo-Forasté (10 Hercher); more fully at
epsilon 3604 and
chi 349.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 April 2007@08:59:29.
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