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Headword: *eu)dokoume/nhn
Adler number: epsilon,3426
Translated headword: acceptable, finding favor, held in renown
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] well expected, pleasing.[1] Polybius [writes]: "by saying these things truthfully, he said that he would create an acceptable pledge."[2]
Greek Original:
*eu)dokoume/nhn: kalw=s prosdokwme/nhn, a)re/skousan. *polu/bios: tou= de\ le/gein a)lhqinw=s tau=ta, pi/stin e)/fh poih/sein eu)dokoume/nhn.
Notes:
[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is the present middle/passive participle, feminine accusative singular, of eu)doke/w.
[2] Polybius fr. 48 Büttner-Wobst; individual unknown.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 28 January 2008@22:27:40.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 29 January 2008@05:03:10.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 5 November 2012@09:50:47.
Ronald Allen (cosmeticules n.1 and n.2) on 26 September 2018@23:30:58.

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