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Headword:
*gigantw/dhs
Adler number: gamma,264
Translated headword: giant-like
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "For he seemed to be both giant-like in body and beast-like in spirit and more subtle in sagacity than all his fellow thieves."[1]
Greek Original:*gigantw/dhs: e)do/kei ga\r to/ te sw=ma gigantw/dhs ei)=nai kai\ to\n qumo\n qhriw/dhs kai\ e)s a)gxi/noian tw=n sullh|steuo/ntwn a(pa/ntwn poluplokw/teros.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Eunapius fr.11 FHG (4.17); Dindorf,
Historici Graeci Minores vol.1. p. 218; Blockley,
Eunapius fr. 18.[3]. Apparently about Charietto(n) (
chi 109).
Blockley, R.C. The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Vol. II. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983.
Keywords: biography; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; medicine
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 June 2002@21:19:30.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 28 June 2002@02:59:29.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords) on 7 June 2012@08:02:58.
Aaron Baker (Added Blockley citation and bibliographic entry.) on 29 July 2014@20:45:44.
Aaron Baker (Added bracket to Blockley citation (bracket used by Blockley to indicate possibly by Eunapius).) on 28 September 2014@17:56:49.
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