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Headword: *)ene/krinon
Adler number: epsilon,1231
Translated headword: they used to approve, they used to reckon among
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] they used to count [something] among good things; like they used to exclude [a)pe/krinon], [meaning] they used to reject after scrutiny.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "when [the] Romans were waging war they used not to approve or to reject any place [sc. a priori], but wherever they happened [to be], they fought."[2]
Greek Original:
*)ene/krinon: toi=s kaloi=s sunhri/qmhsan: w(s a)pe/krinon, a)pedoki/mazon. *ai)liano/s: *(rwmai=oi polemou=ntes ou)de/na to/pon ou)/te e)ne/krinon ou)/te a)pe/krinon, a)ll' e)/nqa e)/tuxon, h)gwni/zonto.
Notes:
[1] The headword verb (for which cf. already epsilon 127) is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Aelian fr. 123a Domingo-Forasté (part of 120 Hercher); cf. alpha 3116.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 April 2005@00:57:55.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and translation; cosmetics) on 26 April 2005@03:27:19.
Catharine Roth (updated reference) on 28 March 2012@12:39:05.
David Whitehead (tweaked hw and tr; expanded n.1) on 29 March 2012@03:16:17.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 24 August 2012@04:46:41.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 11 January 2016@04:13:30.

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