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Headword: *(eko/ntwn ei)=nai
Adler number: epsilon,532
Translated headword: as far as it depended on their will
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] as they were willing.[1] "They crossed the Ister, with the Iouthoungoi having granted free passage, as far as it concerned them, out of hatred for the Romans."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] e(kw/n ge ei)=nai ["as far as it depended on his will"]. "He was deceived about his wife, as far as it depended on his will [i.e. willingly]."[3]
Greek Original:
*(eko/ntwn ei)=nai: boulome/nwn. oi( de\ e)peraiw/santo to\n *)/istron, do/ntwn e(ko/ntwn ei)=nai th\n di/odon *)iouqou/ggwn e)/xqei tw=| pro\s *(rwmai/ous. kai\ *(ekw/n ge ei)=nai. o( de\ e)chpa/thto pro\s th=s gunaiko\s e(kw/n ge ei)=nai.
Notes:
[1] Genitive plural(s), from the passage about to be quoted.
[2] Dexippus FGrH 100 F6; cf. iota 432.
[3] Procopius, Secret History 1.18, on Belisarius' unwillingness to believe the evidence pointing to an affair between his wife Antonina and the young Theodosius.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 June 2006@11:15:17.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 2 June 2006@05:12:29.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 7 August 2012@05:19:55.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; expanded n.3) on 9 December 2015@06:09:22.

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