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Headword: Hapsikoros
Adler number: alpha,4731
Translated headword: readily-sated, fickle
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one who is] easily-changed.
Or one who only has to touch something to be quickly satiated.
"[Scipio] knew the nomads' easy satiety and fickleness towards men."[1]
And elsewhere: "it is necessary to be consistent towards friends and never readily-sated."[2]
Greek Original:
Hapsikoros: eumetablêtos. ê ho tacheôs kai hama tôi hapsasthai korennumenos. eidôs tôn Nomadôn tên hapsikorian kai tên athesian tên pros anthrôpous. kai authis: suntêrêtikon dei einai pros tous philous kai mêdamou hapsikoron.
Notes:
[1] An approximation of Polybius 14.1.4.
[2] An even looser approximation of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.16.2.
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@23:55:15.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; cosmetics) on 6 June 2001@06:49:37.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 10 May 2012@04:10:04.
David Whitehead on 11 September 2015@11:31:13.
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