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Headword:
*)agwniou/menoi
Adler number: alpha,333
Translated headword: about to be contenders
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they who are] about to enter contests.
"About to be contenders, they might not avert their enemies without a fight."[1]
Greek Original:*)agwniou/menoi: ei)s a)gw=nas e)mbalou=ntes. tou\s polemi/ous a)gwniou/menoi a)potra/pointo a)maxei/.
Notes:
The headword is future participle, masculine nominative plural, of the verb
a)gwni/zomai. It is perhaps extracted from the quotation given, though not demonstrably so, and there are plenty of alternatives (beginning with
Thucydides,
Xenophon and
Plato).
[1] Quotation unidentifiable, but evidently from (or connected with) a war narrative. This brings out the point that the verb in question has military as well as athletic overtones.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 March 2001@10:31:06.
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