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Headword: Apêgen
Adler number: alpha,3142
Translated headword: led away
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] prevented, deterred.
Damascius [writes]: "but Sal[l]ustius led the young men away from philosophy, for one or the other of two causes: either to disagree with their teachers, out of hatred for them plotting against their philosophical occupations, or reflecting on the greatness of the pursuit, to suppose that all men are unworthy of it."[1]
Greek Original:
Apêgen: ekôluen, apetrepen. Damaskios: ho de Saloustios apêge tous neous tês philosophias, duoin ta hetera peponthôs, ê proskrousôn tois kathêgoumenois, echthrai têi pros ekeinous epibouleuôn tais philosophois diatribais, ê to megethos tou epitêdeumatos eklogizomenos, oiesthai pantas anthrôpous anaxious einai autou.
Notes:
The headword verb is perhaps extracted from the quotation given, but there are numerous alternatives.
[1] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 144 Zintzen (88 Asmus); cf. sigma 62.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 July 2000@01:37:58.
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