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Headword:
Idion
Adler number: iota,111
Translated headword: one's own, peculiar
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] characteristic of a private person.[1]
"For what happened was peculiar and extraordinary."[2] That is, rarely occurring.
And elsewhere: "they busied themselves with the detail of various matters including the peculiarities of the Pharos."[3]
Greek Original:Idion: idiôtikon. to gar sumbainon idion ên kai parêllagmenon. toutesti spaniôs sumban genesthai. kai authis: hoi de epolupragmonêsan akribôs ta te alla kai tas peri ton Pharon idiotêtas.
Notes:
[1] (cf.
iota 103,
iota 121.) Same headword already in
Hesychius iota203, with the gloss
oi)kei=on; Latte there tentatively suggests it is quoted from
Homer,
Odyssey 4.314; there are of course numerous other possibilities.
[2]
Polybius 3.55.1.
[3]
Diodorus Siculus 33.28a (28b in Loeb edition); cf.
beta 121. For the Pharos see
phi 114.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 May 2006@22:45:38.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (tweaked tr; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 21 May 2006@04:51:24.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; another keyword) on 9 January 2013@03:53:02.
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