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Headword: Apothnêskontas
Adler number: alpha,3321
Translated headword: dying
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[Dying] in wars I see those who set the greatest store by life, and living, everyone who has given up on life. And I myself will go into battle to die, and know that I will survive. For I am a Laconian by descent and I know what the authorities wrote to Leonidas: let them go into battle so as to die and they will not die."[1]
Greek Original:
Apothnêskontas en polemois horô tous peri pleistou poioumenous to zên, kai zôntas hosoi tou zên apegnôkesan. kagô machêsomai hôs apothanoumenos, kai oid' hoti periesomai. Lakôn gar eimi anôthen kai oida tên pros Leônidên epistolên tôn telôn: machesthôn hôs tethnaxomenoi, kai ou tethnaxontai.
Notes:
The entire entry is a quotation from Synesius, Epistle 113 (an exercize in ancient history: Synesius compares his situation to the battle of Thermopylai, 480 BCE). Another excerpt from this letter appears at eta 160.
[1] This last sentiment recurs at mu 303.
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 February 2001@07:49:09.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (re-arranged headword and translation; modified translation and keywords; augmented note) on 6 February 2001@09:43:39.
David Whitehead (added x-ref and keyword; cosmetics) on 30 October 2003@11:53:25.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 28 March 2011@06:31:59.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 2 April 2012@07:55:52.
David Whitehead on 2 April 2012@07:56:37.
David Whitehead on 27 August 2015@11:16:32.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation and note) on 23 April 2023@19:15:36.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 27 April 2023@01:01:15.
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