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Headword:
Piênanta
Adler number: pi,1569
Translated headword: having fattened, having enriched
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning him] having made [them] fat.[1] "[It is said that] when Alyattes was besieging
Priene,
Bias the wise man, having fattened two mules, drove them out into the camp. When [Alyattes] saw them he was amazed, that their [sc. the Prienians'] prosperity extended even to animals. And he decided to make a treaty and sent out a messenger."[2]
Piênanta: liparous ergasamenon. Aluattou poliorkountos Priênên, ton Bianta ton sophon piênanta duo hêmionous exelasai eis to stratopedon. ton de sunidonta kataplagênai, to mechri kai alogôn diateinein autôn tên euthênian. kai eboulêthê speisasthai kai eisepempsen angelon.
Notes:
[1] The headword -- Ionic aorist participle of
piai/nw, masculine accusative singular -- is presumably extracted from the quotation given. (For the Attic aorist of this verb, see
pi 1544,
pi 1547.)
[2]
Diogenes Laertius 1.83. (On this source, and episode, see the note at
alpha 1423.)
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 March 2012@23:48:35.
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