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Headword:
*)anaqe/sqai
Adler number: alpha,1872
Translated headword: to retract
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Antiphon in the [treatise] On Forethought says: "to retract one's life as if it were a draughts-piece is not possible".[1] Meaning to live afresh, having repented in one's former life.
Greek Original:*)anaqe/sqai: *)antifw=n e)n tw=| peri\ pronoi/as fhsi/n: a)naqe/sqai w(/sper petto\n to\n bi/on ou)k e)/stin. a)nti\ tou= a)/nwqen biw=nai metanoh/santas e)n tw=| prote/rw| bi/w|.
Notes:
From Harpokration (cf.
Photius) s.v. The headword, again at
alpha 1873, is present middle/passive infinitive of
a)nati/qhmi.
[1] Antiphon (the sophist) 87 F52 Diels-Kranz. (The treatise is called
On Concord, not
On Forethought;
homonoia, not
pronoia.) On
pettoi//
pessoi/, see e.g.
pi 1384.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 October 2000@11:22:33.
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