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Headword:
*eu(resilo/gos
Adler number: epsilon,3677
Translated headword: skilled at finding words, ingenious in argument, sophistical
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] talking nonsense, speaking readily.[1]
Polybius [writes]: "despite having even more to say, I am in an agony, lest I seem to some of you to speak ingeniously without necessity."[2]
*eu(resilo/gos: flu/aros, e(toimolo/gos. *polu/bios: e)/xwn de\ kai\ plei/w le/gein a)gwniw=, mh\ do/cw tisi\n u(mw=n ou)k a)nagkai/ws eu(resilogei=n.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; and cf.
epsilon 3676,
epsilon 3686. According to LSJ s.v., the spelling of this group of words with eta (
eu(rhsi-) has earlier attestation than the spelling with epsilon (see web address 1).
[2]
Polybius fr. 50 Büttner-Wobst, using the infinitive of the related verb
eu(resiloge/w (or
eu(rhsiloge/w).
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 July 2006@22:44:12.
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