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Headword:
*)ape/dei
Adler number: alpha,2973
Translated headword: fell short of
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] failed [sc. to match up to].[1]
Philopoemen the Arcadian "fell short of none of the Peloponnesians in size and strength of body, but the appearance of his face was ugly."[2]
Greek Original:*)ape/dei: e)ne/leipen. o( de\ *filopoi/mhn o( *)arka\s me/geqos me\n dh\ kai\ sw/matos r(w/mhn a)pe/dei *peloponnhsi/wn ou)deno/s, to\ de\ ei)=dos h)=n tou= prosw/pou kako/s.
Notes:
The headword -- third person singular, imperfect, of LSJ's
a)pode/w (B) -- is perhaps extracted from the quotation given, though there are alternatives in
Plato and elsewhere.
[1] Similar glossing in
Hesychius s.v.
a)pode/ontes.
[2]
Pausanias 8.49.3 (web address 1 below). For Philopoimen see generally
phi 409.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 December 2000@23:50:26.
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