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Headword:
*piqanou/s
Adler number: pi,1574
Translated headword: persuasive, plausible, credulous, obedient
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] them who obey readily.[1]
Xenophon in
Education of Cyrus [writes]: "but some are so obedient that they already obey before they know what is being done."[2] Just as
Thucydides [calls] those who fear [something]
foberoi/ ["fearful"].[3]
Appian [writes]: "but [that] one of them, trustworthy and obedient for the deed, happening on the consuls in a restricted [place] asked for the password."[4] "And certain plausibilities coincided as a result of the reversal; [ones] which the Romans misrepresented, more ambitiously than was proper."[5]
And elsewhere: "... on account of strength of body and [a habit of] rushing headlong into battle being trustworthy to the masses": meaning taking the lead.[6]
*piqanou/s: tou\s eu)peiqei=s. *cenofw=n *ku/rou paidei/a|: piqanoi\ de\ ou(/tws ei)si/ tines, w(/ste pri\n ei)de/nai to\ pratto/menon, pro/teron pei/qesqai. w(/sper foberou/s, tou\s foboume/nous *qoukudi/dhs. *)appiano/s: e(/na d' au)tw=n pisto\n kai\ piqano\n ei)s to\ e)/rgon, e)ntuxo/nta toi=s u(pa/tois e)n a)porrh/tw| pi/stin ai)th=sai. kai\ piqano/thte/s tines suneku/rhsan e)k th=s peripetei/as: a(\s oi( *(rwmai=oi parepla/ttonto, filotimo/teron tou= de/ontos. kai\ au)=qis: dia\ r(w/mhn sw/matos kai\ to\ e)s ta\s ma/xas propete\s ei)=nai tw=| plh/qei piqano/n. a)nti\ tou= e)ca/rxonta.
Notes:
[1] The headword is masculine accusative plural of the adjective
piqano/s; cf.
pi 1572,
pi 1573. It must be extracted from somewhere, though not from any of the passages quoted here.
[2]
Xenophon,
Cyropaedia 2.2.10 (web address 1).
[3]
Thucydides 2.3.4, cf.
phi 556. Thus far, the entry =
Photius pi876 Theodoridis.
[4] Appian fr. 10 Gabba et al.
[5] This sentence (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) contains not the headword adjective but a related abstract noun, in the plural. The quotation is unidentifiable, though
Polybius furnishes parallels for two of its rarer elements (
piqano/thtes in the plural and the verb
suneku/rhsan).
[6] Arrian,
Parthica fr. 89; quoted already at
alpha 2149.
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 June 2012@00:56:03.
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