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Headword:
Anarriptein
Adler number: alpha,2047
Translated headword: to hazard, to risk
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [*)anarriptei=n] and a)narri/yai: [sc. both mean] to undertake.[1]
"As a result, motivated by the shame which they had incurred before the abandonment of the palisade, they hazarded a danger which was by no means small, setting out in the dark through hostile [territory]."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] a)narri/ptein, [meaning] to regret, to retract.[3]
Greek Original:Anarriptein kai Anarripsai: analambanein. hôste pros têi aischunêi, hên pro tou katalipein ton charaka ênenkanto, kai kindunon ou ton elachiston autous anarripsai, skotious apiontas dia tês polemias. kai Anarriptein, metameleisthai, metatithesthai.
Notes:
The twin headwords are the present and aorist active infinitives, respectively, of the verb
a)narripte/w, with no translatable difference in meaning. See also
alpha 2310.
[1] Similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha1639 Theodoridis.
[2]
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 9.4.2.
[3] The change of accentuation does not seem to be significant in itself: see LSJ s.v., indicating that the verb is attested both with a consonant stem and as a contract verb.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 October 2000@17:39:21.
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