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Headword:
*(uparca/menos
Adler number: upsilon,159
Translated headword: having taken the initiative
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] having begun.[1]
"In time the Greeks, once the Chians had taken the initiative, sent envoys to the Spartans".[2]
Greek Original:*(uparca/menos: kata/rcas. xro/nw| de\ oi( *(/ellhnes *xi/wn u(parca/ntwn, e)presbeu/santo pro\s *lakedaimoni/ous.
Notes:
[1] =
Photius upsilon78, where Theodoridis declares the headword -- aorist middle participle, masculine nominative singular, of
u(pa/rxw -- to be extracted from
Plato,
Timaeus 41C.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable (but from an historical narrative of Greek history in the late fifth century BCE; cf.
Thucydides 8.5-7). Here the participle, genitive plural, is active voice.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 December 2002@09:10:37.
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