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Headword: *)ekklhtikw=s
Adler number: epsilon,476
Translated headword: provocatively
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Descriptive of one who is] provoking.[1]
Also [sc. attested are] 'provocations': "for a rout became obvious, as did provocations of the enemy for an attack."[2]
Greek Original:
*)ekklhtikw=s: e)kkalou/menos. kai\ *)ekklh/seis: pro/dhlos ga\r e)ge/neto fugh\ kai\ tw=n u(penanti/wn e)kklh/seis pro\s e)pi/qesin.
Notes:
[1] The headword adverb has the same glossing (with a participle) in other lexica; it must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested.
[2] Polybius fr. 131 Büttner-Wobst, already at epsilon 468. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 531) that this fragment was tentatively ascribed to Polybius by Schweighäuser.
Reference:
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 6 January 2007@10:48:40.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented and modified notes; added a keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 7 January 2007@05:27:27.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 6 August 2012@07:49:24.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr and note) on 27 August 2015@03:26:28.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography) on 22 August 2018@19:29:44.

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