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Headword:
Metrios
Adler number: mu,812
Translated headword: moderate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one who has a moderated [amount of] property;, or [one who is] decent with respect to his disposition.[1]
"But some of the moderate men were at a loss over the attackers."[2]
And
Marcellinus [writes]: "But
Timaeus of Tauromenium praised Timoleon beyond measure."[3]
Metrios: ho memetrêmenên echôn ousian: ê to êthos epieikês. enioi de tôn metriôn andrôn diêporoun epi tois prospiptousi. kai Markellinos: Timoleonta de ho Timaios ho Tauromeneitês huperepêinese tou metriou.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at
Photius mu373 Theodoridis), and cf. also a scholion on Lucian (1.16 Rabe). See also
mu 814,
mu 815.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler indicates that it came to the Suda from the excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus.)
[3]
Marcellinus,
Life of Thucydides (sic) 27, citing
Timaeus [
tau 600] FGrH 566 T13 (and cf. F119). For Timoleon, who does not have his own Suda entry, see also -- besides
tau 600 --
epsilon 95.
Translated by: Richard Rodriguez on 3 July 2009@19:51:42.
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