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Headword:
Hupêrxan
Adler number: upsilon,433
Translated headword: they began
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they initiated first. "For these men first began [the] injustice."
Herodotus [sc. writes this].[1]
And
Aelian [writes]: "he began to be sensible".[2]
Greek Original:Hupêrxan: prokatêrxanto. houtoi gar prôton hupêrxan adikiês. Hêrodotos. kai Ailianos: ho de hupêrxato sôphronein.
Notes:
cf. generally
upsilon 161.
[1]
Herodotus 4.1.1 (on the Scythians).
[2] Adler comments that this phrase does not occur amongst the fragments of
Aelian. It has, though, been identified as a possible reading in his
Varia Historia (2.12, on the young
Themistocles,
theta 124): either aorist
u(ph/rcato or imperfect
u(pe/xeto is the verb there.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 September 2010@08:34:46.
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