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Headword: Achrêstia
Adler number: alpha,4717
Translated headword: uselessness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Appian [writes]: "Horatius had had his limbs tortured, and did not achieve the consulship either in wartime or in peacetime because of the uselessness of his limbs."[1]
Greek Original:
Achrêstia. Appianos: ho de Hôratios lelôbêmenos ên ta skelê, hupateias te ouk etuchen oute en polemôi oute en eirênêi dia tên achrêstian tôn podôn.
Note:
[1] Appian, Regalia = Basilica [Early Rome, in the period of the kings] fr.10; cf. omicron 499 and omega 161.
Keywords: biography; constitution; ethics; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@23:16:43.
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David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 6 June 2001@05:56:25.
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