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Headword:
*)ado/khton
Adler number: alpha,498
Translated headword: unexpected; (?)inglorious
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone or something] denied/disclaimed.
"[He] fearful lest they might attack them unguarded; which is of course what happened, not unexpected[ly], once their band of robbers advanced".[1]
Also [sc. attested is the masculine nominative singular] a)do/khtos, [meaning] unexpected.
Greek Original:*)ado/khton: dieyeusme/non. dediw\s mh\ a)fula/ktois au)toi=s e)pipe/soien: o(\ dh\ ou)k a)do/khton e)gego/nei, e)pei\ kai\ lh|sth/rion au)tw=n proe/baine. kai\ *)ado/khtos, a)prosdo/khtos.
Notes:
The headword is either masculine/feminine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this two-termination adjective. It must be quoted from somewhere: there are numerous possibilities in addition to the quotation given here, where in any case the Suda's gloss does not quite fit the sense needed. LSJ (entry at web address 1) registers the meanings 'unexpected' and, in
Pindar, '(?)inglorious.
[1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 February 2000@21:30:25.
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