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Headword:
*)esxhmatisme/nos
Adler number: epsilon,3260
Translated headword: posturing, having assumed a posture
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one who is behaving in an artificial way and appearing to be orderly; as in
Lysias in the [speech]
In reply to Timon: "but they are bragging similarly to Timon and going around posturing, like this man".[1]
Greek Original:*)esxhmatisme/nos: o( prospoihto\n tro/pon e)/xwn kai\ dokw=n ei)=nai ko/smios: w(s para\ *lusi/a| e)n tw=| pro\s *ti/mwna: oi( d' a)lazoneu/ontai me\n *ti/mwni paraplhsi/ws kai\ e)sxhmatisme/noi perie/rxontai, w(/sper ou(=tos.
Notes:
The headword is perfect middle/passive participle of the verb
sxhmati/zw (cf. generally
sigma 1785). Here in the masculine nominative singular, it has evidently been generated by the corresponding plural in the quotation given.
[1]
Lysias fr. 229 Sauppe, now 282 Carey OCT.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; law; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 May 2003@06:33:51.
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