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Amphisbêtein
Adler number: alpha,1763
Translated headword: to dispute
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] not to be in agreement, but, in effect, to diverge and be in dispute.[1]
"
Ptolemy, knowing that his own ancestors had held Coele
Syria, prepared to make great disputation in support of these claims; for he hoped that the territory which had previously been lost in an unjust war he might now recover, justly, on the same terms".[2]
And
Aelian [writes]: "for some were wrangling and disputing with the others".[3]
"So it was no longer a matter of dispute but that this was the man who had died."[4]
Greek Original:Amphisbêtein: mê sumphônein, all' hoion chôris bainein kai amphiballein. ho de Ptolemaios eidôs tous heautou progonous eschêkotas tên Koilên Surian paraskeuas epoieito megalas amphisbêtôn tautais: êlpize gar tên adikôi polemôi proteron aneimenên tote dikaiôs tois autois nomois anaktêsasthai. kai Ailianos: êmphisbêtoun gar tous heterous heteroi proballomenoi. ouketi oun ên amphisbêtêsima to mê ou touton ekeinon einai ton tethnêkota.
Notes:
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; law
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 August 2000@22:33:01.
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