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Headword:
Adêlia
Adler number: alpha,458
Translated headword: uncertainty
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] indefiniteness, inexperience.
"By using arrogance and casting as little as possible into mind the uncertainty of the war he easily trusted that he would take the barbarian [kingdom]."[1]
But a)dhli/a [is] also obscurity.[2]
Greek Original:Adêlia: aoristia, apeiria. tôi de huperêphaniai chrômenôi kai tên tou polemou adêlian hêkista ballomenôi eis noun êlpize rhaidiôs hairêsein to barbaron. Adêlia de kai hê kruphiotês.
Notes:
[1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[2] Same material, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 March 2001@10:49:15.
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