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Headword: Arrôstia
Adler number: alpha,3998
Translated headword: indisposition, sickness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] weakness.[1]
But [sc. also attested is the phrase] a)rrwsti/a tou= strateu/ein ["indisposition of [= toward] campaigning"], meaning lack of enthusiasm [for doing so]. Thucydides [sc. uses the phrase].[2]
Greek Original:
Arrôstia: hê astheneia. Arrôstia de tou strateuein, anti tou aprothumia. Thoukudidês.
Notes:
[1] Similarly in Hesychius; and cf. under alpha 3997 (on the neuter noun cognate with this feminine headword).
[2] Thucydides 3.15.2 (web address 1 below).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 July 2001@22:52:08.
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