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Headword: *qwpei/a
Adler number: theta,434
Translated headword: flattery
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] fawning.[1]
Extraordinary fawning toward particular people, and the act of dealing not freely [but] with flattery with those in power. Antiphon in [his treatise] On concord [writes]: "but many people, even having friends, do not realize it; rather, they make their companions flatterers of wealth and fawners of luck".[2]
Greek Original:
*qwpei/a: kolakei/a. h( perissh\ pro/s tinas kolakei/a, kai\ to\ mh\ e)leuqe/rws prosfe/resqai th=| kolakei/a| toi=s u(pere/xousin. *)antifw=n e)n tw=| *peri\ o(monoi/as: polloi\ d' e)/xontes fi/lous ou) ginw/skousin, a)ll' e(tai/rous poiou=ntai qw=pas plou/tou kai\ tu/xhs ko/lakas.
Notes:
cf. generally theta 431, theta 432, theta 433, theta 435.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[1] Antiphon the Sophist, fr.65 Diels-Kranz.
Keywords: definition; economics; ethics; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 10 May 2003@16:48:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note; cosmetics) on 11 May 2003@06:16:38.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 4 December 2005@09:41:23.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 4 January 2013@08:11:55.
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