"[...] that his own house had gone to ruin by his own doing, because of his enthusiasm and preeminence in this tendency."[1]
*)esfalke/nai: w(/ste kai\ to\n i)/dion oi)=kon e)sfalke/nai to\ kaq' au(to/n, dia\ th\n pro\s tou=to to\ me/ros o(rmh\n kai\ prostasi/an.
The headword is perfect active infinitive of
sfa/llw (
sigma 1716); presumably drawn from the quotation given, where it occurs in a clause of result following
w(/ste, so translated here with a finite verb.
[1]
Polybius 8.9.2 (web address 1), citing
Theopompus on King Philip II of Macedon and his womanizing. Transmitted via the
Excerpta de virtutibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 2.108.26-8, and quoted also at
pi 2802.
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