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Headword: *)epesta/tei
Adler number: epsilon,2086
Translated headword: used to control, used to manage
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he] used to lead,[1] used to command.
Xenophon [writes]: "this presented an opportunity to grasp how Klearchos used to manage [the men], with a spear in his left hand and a staff in his right".[2]
Greek Original:
*)epesta/tei: h)=rxen, h(gemo/neuen. *cenofw=n: e)ntau=qa h)=n *kle/arxon katamaqei=n w(s e)pesta/tei e)n me\n th=| a)ristera=| xeiri\ do/ru e)/xwn, e)n de\ th=| decia=| bakthri/an.
Notes:
The headword is perhaps, though not necessarily, extracted from the quotation given. (There are numerous alternatives.)
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
[2] Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.11. For Klearchos see also alpha 1741, iota 226, xi 48, upsilon 420.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 May 2003@07:47:39.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 3 July 2003@00:12:08.
David Whitehead (added x-refs) on 3 July 2003@08:07:57.
David Whitehead on 7 October 2012@05:23:16.
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