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Headword: *)exe/gguos
Adler number: epsilon,3981
Translated headword: secure, security-providing, trustworthy
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a secure guarantor;[1] one [who is considered] valuable because of [his] credit.[2]
In Thucydides [it means] someone/something strong, able to provide security.[3]
Greek Original:
*)exe/gguos: o( a)sfalh\s e)gguhth/s: o( dia\ pi/stews a)/cios. para\ de\ *qoukudi/dh| i)sxuro/n, e)gguh=sai duna/menon.
Notes:
The headword is a two-termination compound adjective which literally means 'having security'. For the less common passive sense of the headword ('receiving security'), see already epsilon 3980. For the related adjective e)/gguos ('reliable', 'giving security'), see epsilon 168.
[1] So already in Hesychius epsilon7589 (cf. more broadly epsilon7590 and epsilon7591), and elsewhere.
[2] Both elements also in Photius, Lexicon epsilon2482; second one (only) in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon.
[3] Thucydides 3.46.1 (web address 1): Diodotus exhorts the Athenians not to trust in the death penalty 'as if it could provide security'.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; historiography; history; law; politics
Translated by: Lauren Curtis on 8 November 2007@15:11:49.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added keyword, set status) on 9 November 2007@13:50:45.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 November 2007@03:38:10.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 20 November 2012@07:01:40.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 21 November 2014@23:15:21.
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