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Headword: *xrh=n
Adler number: chi,493
Translated headword: it was necessary
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[*xrh=n means the same as] e)/dei.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] e)xrh=n ["one should have"], [meaning] it was fitting.[2]
"It was necessary, the saying [goes], not to decipher in the stars how things were with you, nor to find out what the rumor was saying, but rather to have you present with us, or if not, to benefit from your letters."[3]
Greek Original:
*xrh=n: e)/dei. kai\ *)exrh=n, e)/prepe. xrh=n de\ mh/, to\ lego/menon, a)/strois ta\ kaq' u(ma=s shmai/nesqai, mhde\ ti/ le/gei fh/mh punqa/nesqai, a)lla\ ma/lista me\n e)/xein suno/ntas, ei) de\ mh/, gra/mmasin u(mete/rois e)ntugxa/nein.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Plato, Apology 17A (web address 1) and Gorgias 458B (web address 2), where the headword appears. See also chi 467 and chi 471.
[2] See also epsilon 4042.
[3] Synesius, Epistle 7.169C, to his sister Stratonike and her husband Theodore: see translation at web address 3.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 April 2008@04:16:37.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 April 2008@06:48:48.
David Whitehead on 13 November 2013@07:21:51.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 19 February 2015@20:26:43.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, expanded note 3, added a link) on 24 April 2023@01:18:53.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 31 October 2023@01:33:06.

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