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Headword:
*deinoi/
Adler number: delta,351
Translated headword: clever (ones), terrible (ones)
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] formidable, experienced, wise.[1]
"Therefore both swore all the oaths which both are and are called most/very terrible among Christians, never to abandon each other even unto dangers which lead to death."[2]
Greek Original:*deinoi/: foberoi/, e)/mpeiroi, sofoi/. dio\ a)/mfw a(/pantes a)llh/loin w)mosa/thn, o(/soi dh\ e)n *xristianoi=s deino/tatoi o(/rkoi ei)si/ te kai\ o)noma/zontai, mh/ pote a)llh/lw kataproh/sesqai a)/xri tw=n e)s to\n o)/leqron fero/ntwn kindu/nwn.
Notes:
[1] cf. already
delta 343, but now plurals. Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and see also the
scholia to
Plato,
Cratylus 424C, where
deinoi/ (in the sense of clever) occurs.
[2]
Procopius,
Secret History 2.13, on Belisarius and his stepson (and adopted son)
Photius. [NB: Adler spoils the sense by printing 'all' as nominative, not accusative.] Abbreviated at
kappa 728.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 October 2003@00:43:50.
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