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Headword:
*)agaqo/s
Adler number: alpha,121
Translated headword: good
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] prudent. But the prudent man and the good man are not equivalents. For the 'good' man [has] something extra. For the prudent man [is] good, [as is] the brave man and others. Those who have some knowledge are also called good.[1]
"...the Daoi [were also called] good spearmen, and good too at hand-to-hand fighting."[2]
Greek Original:*)agaqo/s: o( fro/nimos. ou)k e)pi/shs de\ o( fro/nimos kai\ o( a)gaqo/s. e)piple/on ga\r o( a)gaqo/s. a)gaqo\s ga\r o( sw/frwn, o( a)ndrei=os kai\ oi( loipoi/. a)gaqoi\ le/gontai kai\ oi( e)pisth/mones. tou\s de\ *da/ous a)gaqou\s me\n a)kontista\s, a)gaqou\s de\ kai\ e)n xersi\ poih/sasqai ma/xhn.
Notes:
[1] This material (from an unidentifiable source) is found only in the parallel entry in ps.-
Zonaras. From the second sentence onwards it seems to be disputing the initial, simple equivalence.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable, but for the Daoi, a Danubian people, see
Strabo 7.3.12 (web address 1); Steph.Byz, s.v. Dakia; OCD(4) p.409 s.v. Dacia, and
Herodotus 1.125.4 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; ethics; geography; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 31 March 2001@23:55:10.
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