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Headword: Timasthai
Adler number: tau,596
Translated headword: to honor, to value
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to prefer.[1] "[...] that she insisted on[2] not drinking, on abstaining from wine, and not valuing the rest of her life so highly that, she said, she should negate what preceded by the distraction of a petty manner of life, drinking wine; and the noble woman ended her life."[3]
Greek Original:
Timasthai: protiman. exechesthai mê piein anechesthai oinou, mêde timasthai tosoutou ton bion ton loipon, hina ton phthanonta, phêsin, aphanisêi ektropêi diaitês oligês, piousa oinou: kai ton bion hê gennaia katestrepse.
Notes:
[1] cf. generally tau 611.
[2] Ms F, Adler reports, reads proece/rxesqai. The verb has been variously emended: Aemilius Portus e)ce/rxesqai "to come out from", Bernhardy e)chrnei=to "she refused".
[3] Aelian fr. 182c Domingo-Forasté (179 Hercher): cf. alpha 58.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 October 2012@01:41:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 14 October 2012@03:47:22.
David Whitehead on 13 January 2014@06:30:17.
Catharine Roth (my typo) on 31 March 2014@11:10:20.

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