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Headword:
Apochrêsamenos
Adler number: alpha,3654
Translated headword: having misused, having used to the full
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "When the barbarians made a demand for peace-offerings, in which he had shared, he did not misuse his advantages, but left the greatest impression of justice with the barbarians."[1] Meaning he did not flaunt [them].
And elsewhere: "they were pressing around Publius, hastening to engage and join in using to the full the onslaughts of the barbarians."[2]
Greek Original:Apochrêsamenos: tôn barbarôn exaitêsin spondôn poiêsamenôn, hôn metadous, ouk apochrêsamenos tois proterêmasi, megistên para tois barbarois dikaiosunês apeleipe doxan. anti tou ou katepartheis. kai authis: hoi de peri Poplion êpeigonto speudontes sunapsai kai sunapochrêsasthai tais tôn barbarôn hormais.
Notes:
For these twin meanings of the verb see LSJ s.v.
a)poxra/omai.
[1] John of
Antioch fr.170 FHG (4.603), now 254 Roberto.
[2]
Polybius fr. 119 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 530) that Küster attributed this fragment to
Polybius.
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 August 2001@15:55:47.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword; added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 14 August 2001@11:43:33.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 9 April 2012@05:03:30.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 29 January 2015@04:07:38.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography) on 31 July 2018@23:28:03.
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