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Headword:
Athlêtas
Adler number: alpha,740
Translated headword: athletes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] competitors, men in training.[1]
Aelian [uses the word].[2] "Consequently he not only prepared them to have these things, but he also created athletes in other [kinds of] injustice and filthiness. For what shameful or terrible thing was not present? And what good and wholesome thing was not absent?"[3]
Athlêtas: agônistas, askêtas. Ailianos: toigaroun ou monon taut' echein autous pareskeuazen, alla kai tês allês adikias kai bdelurias athlêtas pareskeuazen. ti gar tôn aischrôn kai deinôn autois ou prosên; ê ti tôn kalôn kai spoudaiôn ouk apên;
Notes:
[1] cf. generally
alpha 741,
alpha 4170. The present headword (+ gloss) is accusative plural, presumably extracted from the quotation given -- on which see next two notes.
[2] Perhaps in
De natura animalium 4.1. Not, at any rate, in the quotation which now follows: see next note.
[3]
Polybius 8.9.8-9, himself quoting
Theopompus (FGrH 115 F225; cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 6.260E = 6.77 Kaibel), on the
hetairoi of Philip II of Macedon.
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
Keywords: athletics; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 December 1999@09:41:39.
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