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Headword:
*)orqh/
Adler number: omicron,568
Translated headword: alert, right, straight
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Polybius [writes]: "so therefore never more alert and fearful had the city of the Romans become, anticipating the confrontation."[1] And elsewhere: "the peoples of
Iberia [were] keenly counterposed to them."[2] Meaning recklessly, on edge.
Greek Original:*)orqh/: *polu/bios: dio/per w(s ou)de/pote ma=llon o)rqh\ kai\ peri/fobos h( tw=n *(rwmai/wn po/lis e)gego/nei, karadokou=sa to\ sumbhso/menon. kai\ au)=qis: ta\ e)/qnh th=s *)ibhri/as o)rqw=s au)toi=s a)ntikaqista/mena. a)nti\ tou= a)nai/dhn, a)poto/mws.
Notes:
The headword, feminine nominative singular of the adjective
o)rqo/s, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given; cf.
iota 238,
omicron 569,
omicron 570,
omicron 571; LSJ s.v.
[1]
Polybius 11.1.1 (web address 1), depicting Hasdrubal's (
alpha 4133; OCD(4) s.v.) advance upon Rome; cf. Livy 27.44.
[2]
Polybius fr. 186 Büttner-Wobst (context indeterminable), using the related adverb. Büttner-Wobst notes (539) that Casaubon attributed this fragment to
Polybius.
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 18 January 2008@01:48:34.
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