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Headword:
*(upe/rfrwn
Adler number: upsilon,389
Translated headword: arrogant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "
Polemo[n] the sophist[1] was so arrogant that he discoursed with cities from the position of a superior, with rulers from that of no inferior, and with gods on a basis of equality." His deeds -- I mean of course those of the arrogant
Polemo[n] -- are recounted more clearly in the
Lives of the Sophists.[2]
*(upe/rfrwn: u(pe/rfrwn dh\ ou(/tws o( *pole/mwn o( sofisth/s, w(s po/lesi me\n a)po\ tou= prou)/xontos, duna/stais de\ a)po\ tou= mh\ u(feime/nou, qeoi=s de\ a)po\ tou= i)/sou diale/gesqai. le/getai de\ kai\ ta\ au)tw=| pepragme/na, fhmi\ dh\ *pole/mwni tw=| u(pe/rfroni, e)n toi=s bi/ois tw=n sofistw=n trano/teron.
Notes:
[1]
pi 1889.
[2]
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 1.25 (530-544), from which this quotation comes (1.25.4).
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 14 May 2007@19:37:09.
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