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Headword:
Ekmalthakôsai
Adler number: epsilon,493
Translated headword: to soften
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to relax, to slacken.[1]
"[...] and many other things to soften minds that are filled with such a degree[2] of arrogance."[3]
Greek Original:Ekmalthakôsai: ekmalaxai, chaunôsai. alla te pleista ekmalthakôsai hoias te onta alazoneias anaplea phronêmata.
Notes:
[1] The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is aorist active infinitive of the verb
e)kmalqako/w, a variant of
e)kmala/ssw. Same glossing in other lexica.
[2] The mss of the source of this quotation (see note 3) have
oi(=a/ in place of
oi(/as, which would yield instead "[...] and many other things that are able to soften minds full of arrogance." The source also reads
e(/tera in place of
a)/lla at the beginning of the quotation, but this produces little difference in meaning.
[3] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 5.2 Blockley (50 - 51), as preserved among Constantine Porphyrogenitus'
Excerpts on Legations 442.31 - 443.1. The emperor Justinian (cf.
iota 446 generally) sent lavish gifts to the Avars in 558 CE (probably) in an attempt to entice them into attacking neighboring peoples. See the preceding lines from this fragment at
alpha 402 and
sigma 274. On the Avars see
sigma 274 note.
Reference:
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 6 January 2007@11:20:21.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 7 January 2007@05:33:03.
David Whitehead (updated a reference) on 3 January 2012@05:23:25.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 6 August 2012@08:53:56.
Catharine Roth (tweaked betacode) on 19 December 2016@00:25:25.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3; added bibliography, cross-references, and keywords) on 28 July 2024@13:10:35.
Ronald Allen (correct date and tweaked n.3) on 29 July 2024@14:46:34.
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