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Headword:
Askêsin
Adler number: alpha,4170
Translated headword: practice, training
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] exercize;[1] also as we [use it], the ancient [writers] and especially
Plato say [this to mean] fearing and anticipating the future.[2]
Also they say
a)skhta/s ["ones in training"] and
a)qlhta/s ["contestants"].[3]
Askêsin: agônian: kai hôs hêmeis, to dedienai kai prosdokan to mellon legousin hoi palaioi kai Platôn. kai Askêtas kai athlêtas legousin.
Notes:
[1] Accusative singular of
alpha 4169, so evidently quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.
[2] See generally LSJ s.v., sense 3. '
Plato' here has been understood to mean P. the comic poet: see fr. 297 Kassel-Austin.
[3] cf. Erotian,
Hippocratic Vocabulary 152.7, and already
alpha 740.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2002@20:48:16.
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