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Headword: Embrithes
Adler number: epsilon,958
Translated headword: weighty
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning something] solid, sturdy.[1]
"[...] the opinion which had prevailed concerning the emperor Justin, that he was very serious and careful."[2]
"And Peter the rhetorician and teacher was serious and unassailable in the practice of rhetoric to mollify the barbarians' attitudes."[3]

Greek Original:

Embrithes: sterron, stibaron. tên peri basileôs Ioustinou kratêsasan doxan, hôs esti mala embrithês te kai katêkribômenos. kai Petros ho rhêtôr kai magistros embrithês te ên kai analôtos en tôi rhêtoreuein katamalaxai phronêmata barbarika.

Notes:

cf. epsilon 959, epsilon 960, epsilon 961, epsilon 962.
[1] The headword is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective; same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (there are numerous possibilities).
[2] Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley (102-103), on Justin II (ruled 565-578); quoted again at iota 449. Further excerpts from this fragment are at alpha 3048, alpha 4374, nu 146, omicron 346, pi 375, and upsilon 69.
[3] Menander Protector fr. 6.2 Blockley (88-89); quoted more fully at pi 1406.

Reference:

R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)

Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 February 2007@00:19:40.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 21 February 2007@03:15:24.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 21 February 2007@10:43:12.
David Whitehead (updated MG refs) on 3 January 2012@05:32:00.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 16 August 2012@04:24:47.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography n.2 and n.3) on 6 September 2024@11:59:38.
Ronald Allen (augmented n.2) on 10 September 2024@11:25:55.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 11 September 2024@14:25:56.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.2) on 2 October 2024@11:47:33.

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