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Headword:
*)/ecallos
Adler number: epsilon,1528
Translated headword: exceptional
Vetting Status: high
Translation: and
e)ca/llws ['exceptionally']: [sc. the latter is] an adverb. Meaning in a different manner, unexpectedly.
Polybios [writes]: "for simultaneously to sacrifice and to propitiate the divinity, bowing down and beseeching the altars exceptionally, and then again to destroy these things is [a matter] of madness."[1]
*)/ecallos kai\ *)eca/llws: e)pi/rrhma. a)nti\ tou= kata\ a)/llon tro/pon, parado/cws. *polu/bios: to\ ga\r a(/ma te qu/ein kai\ e)cila/skesqai to\ qei=on, proskunou=nta kai\ liparou=nta tou\s bwmou\s e)ca/llws, kai\ pa/lin tau=ta diafqei/rein mani/as e)sti/n.
Note:
[1] An approximation of
Polybios 32.15.7-8 (speaking of the actions of Prousias of
Bithynia; web address 1; = Constantine Porphyrogenitus,
Excerpta de virtutibus 2.199.7). The same passage is paraphrased differently at
epsilon 1529 and
pi 2914.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 18 August 2007@03:58:23.
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