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Headword:
*)ekdee/s
Adler number: epsilon,385
Translated headword: lacking
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] unfulfilled, missing. "They decided first, so that nothing of the divine oracles would be lacking, to go into the city in order to steal, if they could, the statue of Athena".[1]
Greek Original:*)ekdee/s: a)tele/s, e)llipe/s. e)/doce de\ au)toi=s pro/teron, w(s mhde\n e)kdee\s ei)/h tw=n qei/wn logi/wn, ei)s th\n po/lin ei)selqei=n, [o(/pws] to\ a)/galma, ei) du/nainto, kle/yeian th=s *)aqhna=s.
Notes:
The headword, presumably taken from the quotation which follows, is neuter nominative singular of this (otherwise unattested) adjective.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable; variously attributed to
Aelian and
Nicolaus of Damascus. Equally uncertain is the episode (and personnel) involved, but a reasonable conjecture might be the theft of the Palladion from
Troy by Odysseus and Diomedes [
Author,
Myth]; see under
pi 34.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 March 2007@06:38:00.
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