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Headword: *)ekleipi/a
Adler number: epsilon,463
Translated headword: failure, lack (of something)
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] yielding.[1]
"[Sabinus] judged unjust the failure in [keeping] the faith due to those who had taken the oath,[2] and he slew himself."
Greek Original:
*)ekleipi/a: h( sugxw/rhsis. a)/dikon h(gei=to th\n e)kleipi/an th=s pro\s tou\s o)mwmoko/tas pi/stews kai\ sfa/zei e(auto/n.
Notes:
cf. ps.-Zonaras 656.1 (partial quotation, stopping at e)kleipi/an). The quotation stems from Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 19.273, describing the emperor Claudius' punishment of the two tribunes who had murdered his predecessor Caligula (Cassius Chaerea and Cornelius Sabinus).
[1] The noun sugxw/rhsis commonly means "concession" or "agreement" (see LSJ s.v.), but here something closer to "act of retreating" seems needed.
[2] Josephus' original has the compound sunomwmo/tas "those who had sworn with him", that his, his fellow-conspirators against Caligula.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; politics; religion
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 19 April 2007@15:39:45.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, cosmetics, status) on 20 April 2007@19:36:05.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 22 April 2007@07:56:33.
David Whitehead on 5 August 2012@09:30:12.
David Whitehead (rearranged and tweaked notes) on 9 December 2015@03:37:31.

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