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Headword:
Authekasta
Adler number: alpha,4425
Translated headword: matter-of-fact things
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] just the things that happen, that is indiscriminately, and abruptly, and precipitously. Or simple things and true things, with the epitome of precision.
Also [sc. attested is the masculine nominative singular] authekastos, a precise person, and severe in speech, and inflexible[1] in manner, undisguised.
"Yet those hostile toward him because of the inflexibility and [sc. excessive] purity of his laws seized him and announced that he had been caught red-handed in law-breaking."[2]
Greek Original:Authekasta: auta ta genomena, hoion akritôs, kai suntomôs, kai apotomôs. ê ta hapla kai alêthê autoakribôs. kai Authekastos, akribês, kai austêros tôi logôi, kai aparenklêtos tôi tropôi, aparakaluptos. hoi toinun apechthanomenoi pros auton dia to authekaston tôn nomôn kai amikton lambanontai te kai ep' autophôrôi halonta paranomounta edeiknusan.
Notes:
cf.
Posidippus fr. 40 Kock, now 41 K.-A.
[1] Here and in other lexica
a)pare/gklhtos stands for the normal
a)pare/gklitos.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. (Adler suggests
Aelian.)
Translated by: William Hutton on 24 March 2002@10:47:09.
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