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Headword:
Oknei
Adler number: omicron,112
Translated headword: hesitates
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] behaves cautiously.[1]
Xenophon [writes]: "[they] hesitating, lest when the Greeks had crossed the bridge they might stay [...]".[2] Meaning [they] practicing caution, fearing.
Greek Original:Oknei: eulabôs echei. Xenophôn: oknountes, mê hoi Hellênes diabantes tên gephuran meineian. anti tou eulaboumenoi, dediotes.
Notes:
[1] The headword, evidently quoted from somewhere, is similarly glossed in the
Platonic Lexicon of
Timaeus, and in
Photius (omicron182 Theodoridis); cf. also the
scholia on
Plato,
Republic 3.391A (where first-person
o)knw= occurs). For this verb see also
omicron 113,
omicron 114,
omicron 116,
omicron 117,
omega 51.
[2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 2.4.22, with the present participle (masculine nominative plural) of the same verb. The passage is quoted again at
upsilon 556.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 November 2009@01:27:36.
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