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Headword:
*proe/sqai
Adler number: pi,2394
Translated headword: to send out
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to hand over.[1]
"But Marcus Porcius was about to be slain, having taken the sword and having been captured by the enemy, judging it better to give up his life rather than his weapon, and after receiving many wounds he was unexpectedly rescued."[2]
Greek Original:*proe/sqai: prodou=nai. labw\n de\ to\ ci/fos *po/rkios *ma/rkos kai\ katalhfqei\s u(po\ tw=n polemi/wn e)foneu/eto, kri/nwn th\n yuxh\n proe/sqai ma=llon h)\ th\n ma/xairan kai\ polla\ labw\n trau/mata parado/cws e)sw/qh.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius pi1220 Theodoridis. The headword is aorist middle infinitive of
proi+/hmi; cf.
pi 2393,
pi 2395,
pi 2408,
pi 2417,
pi 2422,
pi 2426,
pi 2428,
pi 2549. It is taken to be quoted from
Thucydides 1.44.2; cf. the
scholia there.
[2] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable. Valesius [Henri de Valois, 1603-1676] attributed it to
Polybius; Bernhardy compared Aulus
Gellius,
Attic Nights 3.7 (story of a tribune who led his men on a suicide mission but survived: web address 1).
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 May 2010@00:44:58.
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