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Headword: Autarkeia
Adler number: alpha,4464
Translated headword: self-sufficiency
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Polybius [writes]: "the man is worthy of being praised and marvelled at, most of all for the self-sufficiency of his lifestyle. There was a certain self-taught philosophy involved in it which he displayed in the course of many deeds."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] "I am self-sufficient" [au)tarkw=]; [used] with a dative.[2]
Greek Original:
Autarkeia. Polubios: axios men ho anêr epaineisthai te kai thaumazesthai, malista de tês autarkeias tou biou, hê philosophia tis autodidaktos egeneto peri auton, hên en pollois epedeixato pragmasin. kai Autarkô: dotikêi.
Notes:
[1] Though attributed here to Polybius, this material on Publicola (pi 2052) -- again at pi 2057 -- actually comes from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 5.12.3.
[2] Of the commodity or property in which one is so.
Reference:
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; historiography; philosophy
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 March 2002@14:40:09.
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David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 April 2002@05:50:34.
Marcelo Boeri (Added note.) on 9 December 2003@18:38:28.
David Whitehead (modified note; cosmetics) on 10 December 2003@02:47:55.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 18 December 2009@12:27:23.
Catharine Roth (added bibliography) on 26 December 2009@19:42:21.
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