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Headword: *prou)rgiai/teron
Adler number: pi,2911
Translated headword: more serviceable, rather serviceable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
More/rather necessary.[1] That [which is] preferable for the task [pro\ tou= e)/rgou][2] [is] more/rather necessary; for prou=rgon is as if to say pro/ergon.
Polybius [writes]: "that he considered nothing in life more important than hunting."[3]
They also say pro\ e)/rgou [i.e. without crasis]. Arrian [writes]: "the general considered it especially useful to leave what was at their rear friendly to himself and to the army."[4]
"But he ventured to go self-summoned, judging the difficulty resulting from chance to be more important than the missives from an autocrat."[5]
Greek Original:
*prou)rgiai/teron: a)nagkaio/teron. to\ pro\ tou= e)/rgou ai(retw/teron a)nagkaio/teron: to\ ga\r prou=rgo/n e)stin oi(=on pro/ergon. *polu/bios: ou)de\n prou)rgiai/teron poioume/nou kata\ to\n bi/on tou= kunhgetei=n. le/getai de\ kai\ pro\ e)/rgou. *)arriano/s: ma/lista de\ fi/lia ta\ kata\ nw/tou e(autw=| te kai\ th=| stratia=| katalipei=n pro\ e)/rgou e)ti/qeto o( strathgo/s. o( de\ au)toke/leustos e)to/lma i)e/nai, tw=n pro\s au)tokra/toros e)phggelme/nwn prou)rgiaite/ran th\n a)po\ th=s tu/xhs stenoxwri/an pepoihme/nos.
Notes:
[1] Comparative formed from prou)/rgou: cf. Hesychius, also a scholion on Aristophanes, Lysistrata 20 (where the neuter plural occurs). See also pi 2909, pi 2910, pi 2912, pi 2672.
[2] cf. Photius and the Etymologicum Magnum.
[3] Polybius 8.25.6, quoted already at delta 635.
[4] From Arrian's Parthica or From the Death of Alexander: Roos/Wirth fr. 25. See already pi 2391.
[5] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 8.23.7. See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II pp.XCIV-XCV.
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2011@01:26:47.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 February 2011@03:25:49.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 18 February 2011@01:34:35.
David Whitehead (expanded n.5) on 12 October 2011@03:41:24.
David Whitehead on 28 November 2011@09:44:43.
David Whitehead on 21 October 2013@05:50:58.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 7 December 2021@11:29:29.

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