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Headword:
*au)ta/rkeia
Adler number: alpha,4464
Translated headword: self-sufficiency
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Polybius [writes]: "the man is worthy of being praised and marvelled at, most of all for the self-sufficiency of his lifestyle. There was a certain self-taught philosophy involved in it which he displayed in the course of many deeds."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] "I am self-sufficient" [
au)tarkw=]; [used] with a dative.[2]
Greek Original:*au)ta/rkeia. *polu/bios: a)/cios me\n o( a)nh\r e)painei=sqai/ te kai\ qauma/zesqai, ma/lista de\ th=s au)tarkei/as tou= bi/ou, h(\ filosofi/a tis au)todi/daktos e)ge/neto peri\ au)to\n, h(\n e)n polloi=s e)pedei/cato pra/gmasin. kai\ *au)tarkw=: dotikh=|.
Notes:
[1] Though attributed here to
Polybius, this material on Publicola (
pi 2052) -- again at
pi 2057 -- actually comes from
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 5.12.3.
[2] Of the commodity or property in which one is so.
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; historiography; philosophy
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 March 2002@14:40:09.
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