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Headword:
Athesian
Adler number: alpha,722
Translated headword: fickleness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] deviation.[1]
"For fearing the fickleness of the Celts, and the plots they were threatening".[2]
"The Romans had collectively calculated the fickleness of the Gauls".[3]
And elewhere
Polybius [writes]: "to conceal from all their fickleness and instability".[4]
Greek Original:Athesian: parabasian. agôniôn gar tên athesian tôn Keltôn, kai tas epiboulas tas kai episeiomenas. hoi de Rhômaioi sullogisamenoi tên tôn Galatôn athesian. kai authis Polubios: epikruptein hapasi tên athesian autôn kai tên abebaiotêta.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha457 Theodoridis. The headword, accusative singular, must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps, though not necessarily, any of the quotations given here, which the other lexica do not have.
[2]
Polybius 3.78.2 (imperfectly quoted; for a better version see under
alpha 334).
[3]
Polybius 2.32.8 (again approximated rather than quoted).
[4]
Polybius 15.24.6 (considerably garbled: it should read "to proclaim to all his...").
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 December 1999@06:02:04.
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