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Headword:
Amoibê
Adler number: alpha,1661
Translated headword: requital
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] retribution. Reward.[1]
"He bore a marvelous reward for his very godlike manner. For the [gifts] of fortune flowed to him from astern,[2] and for all the things to which he applied himself he failed in none of them."[3]
Greek Original:Amoibê: antektisis. antapodosis. amoibên tou theoeidestatou tropou thaumastên ephereto. errei gar hoi kata prumnan ta ek tês tuchês kai pasin hois epetheto, toutôn hêmarten oudenos.
Notes:
[1] (Same or similar glossing, variously, in other lexica.) See already
alpha 1565, and cf.
alpha 1659.
[2] A nautical metaphor implying effortlessly and favourably; cf. "with a following wind".
[3]
Aelian fr. 350 Domingo-Forasté (354 Hercher); again at
epsilon 2947.
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; imagery
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 May 2001@11:29:52.
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