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Headword:
*)epitaktikw=s
Adler number: epsilon,2657
Translated headword: peremptorily
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] imperiously. "[...that] those who had come to him [...] as envoys were communicating with him peremptorily about these things."[1]
Greek Original:*)epitaktikw=s: prostaktikw=s. tou\s de\ pro\s au)to\n presbeu/ontas e)pitaktikw=s au)tw=| diaste/llein peri\ tou/twn.
Notes:
In the Greek, the difference between headword and gloss is merely a matter of prepositional prefix (
epi- or
pros-). For the latter adverb cf. under
alpha 2096,
delta 1489,
iota 683.
[1]
Diodorus Siculus 28.15.2 (via
Excerpta Constantiniana EL I 398.8-9), slightly abridged; "him" is Antiochos III in the context of his negotiations with the Romans.
Diodorus also uses this adverb in 15.40.2.
Translated by: William Hutton on 10 December 2007@01:20:59.
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