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Headword:
Hêttôn
Adler number: eta,630
Translated headword: less (than)
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] inferior, subject [to].[1]
"
Epicurus was so much less than [ = a slave to] pleasure that at his end he wrote in his will that a sacrifice should be made for his father and his mother once a year, but for himself twice [a year], honoring the excess of prodigality."[2]
Hêttôn: elattôn, hupocheirios. houtô de ên Epikouros hêdonês hêttôn, hôs dia tôn eschatôn en tais diathêkais hautou egrapse, tôi men patri kai têi mêtri enagizein hapax tou etous, heautôi de dissôs, tês asôtias to pleon protimôn.
Notes:
cf.
eta 598,
eta 626.
[1] The headword
h(/ttwn is an Attic comparative form; in the quotation which follows, the Ionic/koine form
h(/sswn appears.
[2]
Aelian fr. 42a Domingo-Forasté (39 Hercher), quoted more fully at
epsilon 2405.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 November 2006@23:11:20.
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