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Headword: Pleonexia
Adler number: pi,1725
Translated headword: greed, acquisitiveness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] harm in pursuit of the desire for more, in the Apostle [Paul].[1]
But in Dionysius of Halicarnassus pleonexia [means] victory. "[...] nor as much territory as, secretly from their adversaries, the soldiers desired to appropriate, well-placed for pleonexia."[2]
Greek Original:
Pleonexia: hê huper tês epithumias tou pleionos blabê para tôi Apostolôi. para de Dionusiôi Halikarnasei pleonexia, hê nikê. outh' hosa lathra tôn antipolemiôn chôria eis pleonexian eutheta spheterisasthai êthelon hoi stratiôtai.
Notes:
cf. pi 1726.
[1] e.g. Romans 1.29.
[2] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 9.3.2.
Reference:
Carl de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung II." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 23 (1920), 29.
Keywords: Christianity; definition; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 September 2012@01:31:17.
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David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 26 September 2012@03:08:11.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 26 September 2012@10:09:45.
David Whitehead (my typo) on 27 September 2012@03:05:41.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 30 September 2012@01:51:09.
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