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Headword: Astikôs
Adler number: alpha,4241
Translated headword: astutely; urbanely
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] intelligently, sensibly.[1]
"He, of all, having grasped the situation astutely divided into two those who had advanced."[2]
Also said is [the related adjective] astikos ["urbane"] [meaning he who is] civil.
"[...] and [how] the hayseed [can support] the urbane men," says the Theologian.[3]
Greek Original:
Astikôs: eusunetôs, emphronôs. ho de pantôn astikôs tên prothesin katanoêsas dichêi dieile tous proschôrêsantas. legetai de Astikos kai ho politikos. kai tous astikous ho agroikos, ho Theologos phêsi.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. The headword adverb (presumably extracted from the quotation which follows here) is not otherwise attested.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3] i.e. Gregory of Nazianzus: In theophania (Oratio 38) (= PG 36.317).
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 January 2002@05:48:17.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords) on 6 January 2002@11:41:31.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 7 October 2005@06:12:24.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 4 March 2011@06:36:22.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 26 April 2012@03:18:44.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 7 February 2015@23:50:58.
David Whitehead (another note) on 8 February 2015@03:53:35.
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