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Headword:
*au)totelh/s
Adler number: alpha,4530
Translated headword: self-sufficient
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] capable.
Competent.[1]
Polybius [writes]: "let these things be said on account of the prudence of the Romans and the folly of those who make light of what is beyond their understanding but think themselves to be self-sufficient and capable of restoring their own forces."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]
au)totelh\s di/kh ["self-sufficient lawsuit"], [one] from which there is no appeal to another [suit]. And [it is] absolutely authoritative itself.[3]
*au)totelh/s: i(kano/s. te/leios. *polu/bios: tau=ta ei)rh/sqw xa/rin th=s *(rwmai/wn eu)bouli/as kai\ th=s a)noi/as tw=n o)ligwrou/ntwn th=s tw=n e)kto\s sugkataqe/sews, au)totelei=s de\ nomizo/ntwn ei)=nai pro\s to\ katorqou=n ta\s sfete/ras duna/meis. kai\ *au)totelh\s di/kh, a)f' h(=s ou)k e)/stin e)kkale/sasqai e)f' e(te/ran. kai\ au)to\ to\ ku/rion a(plw=s.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica.
[2]
Polybius fr. 23 Büttner-Wobst.
[3] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. (The concept probably goes back to classical
Athens but is only attested in lexicography.)
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 August 2001@17:35:49.
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