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Headword: *)axrhsti/a
Adler number: alpha,4717
Translated headword: uselessness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Appian [writes]: "Horatius had had his limbs tortured, and did not achieve the consulship either in wartime or in peacetime because of the uselessness of his limbs."[1]
Greek Original:
*)axrhsti/a. *)appiano/s: o( de\ *(wra/tios lelwbhme/nos h)=n ta\ ske/lh, u(patei/as te ou)k e)/tuxen ou)/te e)n pole/mw| ou)/te e)n ei)rh/nh| dia\ th\n a)xrhsti/an tw=n podw=n.
Note:
[1] Appian, Regalia = Basilica [Early Rome, in the period of the kings] fr.10; cf. omicron 499 and omega 161.
Keywords: biography; constitution; ethics; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@23:16:43.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 6 June 2001@05:56:25.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 29 August 2002@06:12:23.
David Whitehead on 9 May 2012@10:04:22.
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