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Headword:
*au)tosxe/dion
Adler number: alpha,4528
Translated headword: extemporaneous, improvised
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] out of a nearby place.[1]
Or out of an immediate [time].
Also [sc. attested is the related adverb]
au)tosxedi/ws ["impromptu"], spontaneously, immediately.[2]
Also [sc. attested is a related verb]
au)tosxedia/zwsin ["they improvise"], they act spontaneously.
Aelian [writes]: "[the] Romans welcomed neither a lawless success nor a completed victory in which the leader did not share, in order that their subjects would not improvise in their doings."[3]
And elsewhere: "to come on behalf of great things and to have been improvised [?on the basis of?] impossibilities."[4]
*au)tosxe/dion: e)k tou= su/neggus to/pou. h)\ to\ e)k sunto/mou. kai\ *au)tosxedi/ws, au)toma/tws, sunto/mws. kai\ *au)tosxedia/zwsin, au)tono/mws pra/ttwsin. *ai)liano/s: *(rwmai=oi de\ eu)pragi/an para/nomon ou)/te ni/khn telesqei=san, h(=s o( a)/rxwn mh\ e)koinw/nhsen, h)spa/zonto, i(/na mh\ au)tosxedia/zwsin e)n tai=s pra/cesin oi( u(ph/kooi. kai\ au)=qis: u(pe\r mega/lwn h(/kein kai\ a)duna/twn au)tosxediasqh=nai.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 17.530, where
au)tosxedo/n occurs.
[2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[3]
Aelian fr. 120 Hercher.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 August 2001@17:48:43.
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