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Headword: Othneios
Adler number: omicron,84
Translated headword: strange, foreign
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] not he who has come out of a different [country], as some have interpreted, [i.e.] of another nation, but he who is from the same city and otherwise friendly, but not belonging to the same family.[1]
"They were fighting a civil war worse than the foreign [war]."[2]
"For telling lies is something foreign and alien to a wise man".[3]
"He was the first to give Romans experience of foreign wars."[4]
"They are carrying a war long and foreign."[5]
Greek Original:
Othneios: ouch ho ek tês allodapês aphigmenos, hôs tines apedosan, alloethnês, all' ho apo poleôs tês autês ôn kai allôs epitêdeios pôs, ou mentoi kata genos prosêkôn. epolemoun emphulon polemon kakiona tou othneiou. othneion gar ti kai ekphulon pseudesthai sophôi andri. prôtos othneiôn katestêsen eis peiran polemôn Rhômaious. polemon makron kai othneion ekpherousin.
Notes:
cf. already omicron 83.
[1] According to Adler, [G.] Wentzel attributed this gloss to a rhetorical source.
[2] Ultimate source unknown. (According to Adler, this and the remaining quotations here were transmitted through the excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus.)
[3] Menander Protector fr. 19.1 Blockley, where the true reading is actually 'to a Turkish man'; cf. generally epsilon 719.
[4] Ultimate source unknown.
[5] Ultimate source unknown.
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; law; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 November 2009@00:59:10.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 8 November 2009@04:50:05.
David Whitehead (expanded n.3) on 11 April 2011@06:08:57.
David Whitehead (updated n.3) on 3 January 2012@06:56:22.
David Whitehead on 23 June 2013@06:20:01.

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