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Headword:
Stratêgia
Adler number: sigma,1168
Translated headword: generalship, office of general
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The rank.[1]
There are three ways by which one aims at generalship, approaching it rationally. One is through memoranda and preparation from them. Another is systematic, the advice handed down from men of experience. And the third is through habit and the experience of matters themselves. So says
Polybius.[2]
"There are three ways in which all who approach it rationally aim at generalship. First through memoranda and preparation from them, another is systematic and the advice handed down from experienced men, and the third is through habit and the experience of matters themselves. The generals of the Achaeans were absolutely without conception of all of these things."[3]
Stratêgia: to axiôma. treis tropoi eisi kath' hous ephietai tis stratêgias, kata logon autêi prosiôn: heis men ho dia tôn hupomnêmatôn kai tês ek toutôn kataskeuês, heteros de ho methodikos kai hê para tôn empeirôn andrôn paradosis, tritos de ho dia tês ep' autôn tôn pragmatôn hexeôs kai tribês. houtô phêsi Polubios. hoti triôn ontôn tropôn, kath' hous ephientai pantes stratêgias, hoi kata logon autêi prosiontes: prôtou men dia tôn hupomnêmatôn kai tês ek toutôn kataskeuês, heterou de tou methodikou kai tês para tôn empeirôn andrôn paradoseôs, tritou de tou dia tês ep' autôn tôn pragmatôn hexeôs kai tribês: pantôn êsan toutôn anennoêtoi hoi tôn Achaiôn stratêgoi haplôs.
Notes:
[1] cf.
sigma 1166 and again
sigma 1175, where this is the gloss for the noun
stratei/a.
[2] The extract from
Polybius (11.8.1-3; cf. generally 9.14.1-5) is in fact what now follows. What has gone before is a very close paraphrase of it.
[3] For this concluding sentence see already
alpha 2273.
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 16 November 1998@22:51:17.
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