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Headword:
Anathesthai
Adler number: alpha,1872
Translated headword: to retract
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Antiphon in the [treatise] On Forethought says: "to retract one's life as if it were a draughts-piece is not possible".[1] Meaning to live afresh, having repented in one's former life.
Greek Original:Anathesthai: Antiphôn en tôi peri pronoias phêsin: anathesthai hôsper petton ton bion ouk estin. anti tou anôthen biônai metanoêsantas en tôi proterôi biôi.
Notes:
From Harpokration (cf.
Photius) s.v. The headword, again at
alpha 1873, is present middle/passive infinitive of
a)nati/qhmi.
[1] Antiphon (the sophist) 87 F52 Diels-Kranz. (The treatise is called
On Concord, not
On Forethought;
homonoia, not
pronoia.) On
pettoi//
pessoi/, see e.g.
pi 1384.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 October 2000@11:22:33.
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