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Headword:
*)epistolh/
Adler number: epsilon,2632
Translated headword: letter, missive, order
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] command, injunction.[1]
"But he issues orders to the priest who was sleeping."[2] "[...] keeping to the god's orders he is very mindful also of his [own] ascent towards him [sc. the god]."[3]
Greek Original:*)epistolh/: e)ntolh/, e)pi/skhyis. o( de\ tw=| i(erei= e)pistola\s le/gei kaqeu/donti. o( ta\s e)pistola\s tou= qeou= diafula/ttwn me/mnhtai kalw=s kai\ th=s pro\s au)to\n e)pano/dou.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing (of this feminine noun) in other lexica, and cf. also various
scholia: on
Plato,
Epistles 337E, and on
Sophocles,
Ajax 781 and
Oedipus at Colonus 1601.
[2]
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr. 95 Habrich.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable (Adler suggests
Aelian.)
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 December 2007@22:32:48.
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