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Headword:
Ekdees
Adler number: epsilon,385
Translated headword: lacking
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] unfulfilled, missing. "They decided first, so that nothing of the divine oracles would be lacking, to go into the city in order to steal, if they could, the statue of Athena".[1]
Greek Original:Ekdees: ateles, ellipes. edoxe de autois proteron, hôs mêden ekdees eiê tôn theiôn logiôn, eis tên polin eiselthein, [hopôs] to agalma, ei dunainto, klepseian tês Athênas.
Notes:
The headword, presumably taken from the quotation which follows, is neuter nominative singular of this (otherwise unattested) adjective.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable; variously attributed to
Aelian and
Nicolaus of Damascus. Equally uncertain is the episode (and personnel) involved, but a reasonable conjecture might be the theft of the Palladion from
Troy by Odysseus and Diomedes [
Author,
Myth]; see under
pi 34.
Keywords: art history; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; mythology; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 March 2007@06:38:00.
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