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Headword: *pro/qesis
Adler number: pi,2443
Translated headword: purpose
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] deliberation, decision.
Polybius [writes]: "but for the Romans it was a purpose to fight a sea-battle".[1]
It also means [...].[2]
Greek Original:
*pro/qesis: boulh/, gnw/mh. *polu/bios: h)=n de\ toi=s *(rwmai/ois pro/qesis naumaxh=sai. shmai/nei de\ kai/.
Notes:
For this headword see also pi 2442.
[1] Polybius fr. 71; cf. under pi 1290 (Polybius 1.26.1) for the idiom.
[2] Some manuscripts omit this incomplete sentence; some have only shmai/nei. Ms M adds lei/pei, "[something] is lacking."
Keywords: definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 March 2010@05:35:56.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (supplemented translation) on 23 April 2010@00:15:50.
Catharine Roth (supplemented translation, added note, set status) on 23 April 2010@00:33:49.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; expanded n.1) on 23 April 2010@03:07:40.
David Whitehead on 20 November 2011@07:44:40.
David Whitehead on 16 October 2013@04:56:43.
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