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Headword:
*)ane/lpiston
bi/on
Adler number: alpha,2252
Translated headword: hope-free life, hopeless life
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Attic [writers] have said that [a hope-free life is] finest, [one] in which they are not excited into hopes; rather, the good things are already there.
Greek Original:*)ane/lpiston bi/on: to\n ka/lliston ei)rh/kasin *)attikoi/, e)n w(=| ou)k ei)s e)lpi/das e)pto/hntai, a)lla\ pa/restin h)/dh ta\ a)gaqa/.
Note:
Same entry in other lexica, including
Photius whose addendum 'thus
Pindar' was rejected by Reizenstein as misplaced. (It is also in
Apostolius 2.91.) Perhaps, rather, a philosophical (Stoic?) twist on the word "hopeless", which in Greek normally had the same unfavourable implications as it does in English: see LSJ s.v.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 June 2000@11:14:13.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note and keywords) on 7 March 2001@09:20:25.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords; tweaking) on 2 March 2012@09:05:01.
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