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Headword: *eu)= pefukw/s
Adler number: epsilon,3648
Translated headword: naturally gifted
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] well-fitting.
"He ordered the soldiers to go in [sc. to the water]. For he was naturally gifted, above all else, in instilling with courage those being summoned and making them sympathetic."[1]
Greek Original:
*eu)= pefukw/s: a)rmo/dios. parekeleu/eto e)mbai/nein tou\s stratiw/tas. kai\ ga\r h)=n eu)= pefukw/s, ei) kai\ pro\s a)/llo ti, pro\s to\ qa/rsos e)mbalei=n kai\ sumpaqei=s poih=sai tou\s parakaloume/nous.
Notes:
The headword (a two-word phrase in the Greek) is presumably extracted from the quotation given, though it also occurs three more times in Polybius, as well as in other authors (e.g. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch).
[1] An abbreviation of Polybius 10.14.9-10 (on Scipio Africanus).
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 5 February 2008@21:02:29.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and tr; notes; more keywords; cosmetics) on 6 February 2008@03:49:56.
David Whitehead on 13 November 2012@05:34:46.
David Whitehead (expansions to notes) on 11 March 2016@07:34:48.

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