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Headword:
*)apobebiwke/nai
Adler number: alpha,3252
Translated headword: to have ceased living
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to die. "It is essential not to conceal [anything], so that there may be no suspicion on their part that he has ceased living."[1]
Greek Original:*)apobebiwke/nai: a)poqanei=n. a)na/gkh mh\ a)pokru/ptein, w(s a)\n mh\ u(po/noia ge/nhtai sfi/si tou= a)pobebiwke/nai au)to/n.
Notes:
The headword, a perfect infinitive, is presumably extracted from the quotation given (where it occurs in indirect speech).
[1]
Menander Protector fr. 12.5 Blockley (132-133), during the Avar siege of Sirmium (cf.
sigma 477) in 568, Bonus's doctor
Theodorus (cf. PLRE IIIb s.v.
Theodorus(28)) deliberates over allowing the wounded general to parley with the enemy. On Bonus see generally
alpha 2053 note. On the Avars see generally
alpha 18.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2002@13:09:37.
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