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Headword:
*xrei/a
Adler number: chi,465
Translated headword: service
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] function, providence.[1]
"When he recovered from the wound, he supposed he would provide true service to his country's affairs."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] a proverb: "Service, even if it is uninspired, teaches the wise man."[3] A Carthaginian [sentiment?].[4] That is, those who practice the intelligence made possible by the opportunity.
Greek Original:*xrei/a: u(po/qesis, pro/noia. o( de\ u(pela/mbanen u(giasqei\s e)k tou= trau/matos a)lhqinh\n pare/xesqai xrei/an toi=s koinoi=s pra/gmasi. kai\ paroimi/a: *xrei/a dida/skei, ka)\n a)/mousos h)=|, sofo/n. *karxhdo/nion. toute/stin e)ndexome/nhn e)k tou= kairou= poihsa/menoi th\n e)pi/noian.
Notes:
[1] Adler notes Kuster's proposal to emend the second glossing term here from
pronoia to
penia 'poverty', and Bernhardy's rejection of the proposal.
[2]
Polybius 3.70.5 (web address 1), on Scipio. See further below, n.4.
[3]
Euripides fr.715; Arsenius 18.41e.
[4] The transmitted
*karxhdo/nion is opaque as it stands. Adler's apparatus notes A. Meineke's proposed emendation to
*karxhdoni/w|, i.e. in
Menander's comedy of that name. Alternatively (and preferably?), as Bernhardy suggested, 'Carthaginian' is a displaced gloss on Scipio's wound (for which cf.
Polybius 3.66.2 & 9, 3.68.6).
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Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; historiography; history; medicine; politics; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 April 2008@00:46:02.
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