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Headword: *)epithdeie/steros
Adler number: epsilon,2686
Translated headword: more friendly, rather friendly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"For besides, Mithridates was in other respects a just king and more/rather friendly to the Romans."[1]
Greek Original:
*)epithdeie/steros: kai\ ga\r o( *miqrida/ths ta/ te a)/lla e)/ndikos basileu\s h)=n kai\ *(rwmai/ois e)pithdeie/steros.
Notes:
The headword, an irregular comparative of the adjective e)pith/deios (epsilon 2685, epsilon 2687, epsilon 2688), is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] A fuller version of what has already appeared at epsilon 1178. Roos (1912: 18) tentatively attributed it to Arrian's Parthica and suggested that it alludes to the Caucasian-Iberian Mithridates who took control of Armenia with the backing of the Romans. See Cassius Dio 26.3.4; Tacitus, Annals 6.32 ff, 11.8, 12.44 ff.; RE s.v. Mithridates (33).
Reference:
Roos, A. G. (1912). Studia Arrianea. Leipzig.
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; politics
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 December 2007@01:37:18.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 10 December 2007@03:48:42.
William Hutton (augmented notes and added keywords, set status) on 10 December 2007@05:23:53.
David Whitehead (rearranged and expanded notes) on 21 October 2012@07:08:23.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 January 2015@19:00:09.

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