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Headword: Autopathôs
Adler number: alpha,4515
Translated headword: candidly, from one's own experience
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Polybius [writes]: "cross-examined about each man he spoke in reply; he supported the inquiries nothing other than candidly and nobly."[1]
And elsewhere: "Hannibal was believed, since he seemed to have spoken both candidly and truthfully."[2]
So au)topaqw=s [means] innately, from one's own character.
"Accordingly Antiochus thought what had been said by Hannibal against the Romans [was said] candidly and truthfully, and he abandoned his former suspicion."[3]
Greek Original:
Autopathôs: Polubios: ho de anakrinomenos huper hekastou apedidou logon: ou mên all' autopathôs kai gennaiôs hupemene tous elenchous. kai authis: ho de Annibas doxas autopathôs hama kai alêthôs eirêkenai pisteuetai. Autopathôs oun, oikothen, ex idias proaireseôs. ho men oun Antiochos doxas autopathôs hama kai alêthôs eirêsthai para tou Annibou kata Rhômaiôn, pasês tês proüparchousês hupopsias apestê.
Notes:
The headword adverb is illustrated by all three of the quotations given.
[1] Polybius 8.17.7-8, initially abridged.
[2] Adler tentatively asssigned this quotation to Appian, but on no discernible basis. In fact [DW] the phraseology is uncannily like that of the Polybius passage about to be quoted, and latterly Favuzzi [see under alpha 1596] 202-203 has proposed an attribution to that author.
[3] Polybius 3.12.1.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 August 2001@17:37:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified note; cosmetics) on 9 August 2001@05:13:18.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 March 2011@05:14:57.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; tweaking) on 3 May 2012@07:56:25.
David Whitehead (modified and expanded n.2) on 4 June 2013@04:34:24.

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