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Headword: *)apetru/eto
Adler number: alpha,3089
Translated headword: was wasted
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"And in the preparations for the dinners much of the public [funds] was wasted."[1] [Meaning] was squandered.
And elsewhere: "if Eurystheus had offered this challenge to Heracles, it would have wasted him."[2]
Greek Original:
*)apetru/eto: kai\ para\ ta\s tw=n dei/pnwn paraskeua\s to\ polu\ tw=n dhmosi/wn a)petru/eto. katedapana=to. kai\ au)=qis: ei) tou=ton to\n a)=qlon prou)/teinen *eu)rusqeu\s *(hraklei=, sfo/dra a)\n au)to\n a)pe/trusen.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Eutropius, Breviarium 7.18. See again beta 309 (fuller); also eta 500.
[2] (In the sense of worn him out.) This is part of Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F135: the historian (nu 393) is contrasting himself with the mythological Heracles, whose labors were performed for king Eurystheus (epsilon 3732); Nicolaus boastfully suggests that his own labor, a 144-book universal history, would have been too great for Heracles. For discussion of this fragment see Marincola (below) 155; and for a)=qlos as the noun for Heracles' labors cf. e.g. Diodorus 4.11-29 passim.
Reference:
Marincola, John (1997), Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography, Cambridge University: Cambridge
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; food; historiography; history; mythology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 January 2001@21:47:30.
Vetted by:
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