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Headword:
*)aqlhta/s
Adler number: alpha,740
Translated headword: athletes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] competitors, men in training.[1]
Aelian [uses the word].[2] "Consequently he not only prepared them to have these things, but he also created athletes in other [kinds of] injustice and filthiness. For what shameful or terrible thing was not present? And what good and wholesome thing was not absent?"[3]
*)aqlhta/s: a)gwnista\s, a)skhta/s. *ai)liano/s: toigarou=n ou) mo/non tau=t' e)/xein au)tou\s pareskeu/azen, a)lla\ kai\ th=s a)/llhs a)diki/as kai\ bdeluri/as a)qlhta\s pareskeu/azen. ti/ ga\r tw=n ai)sxrw=n kai\ deinw=n au)toi=s ou) prosh=n; h)\ ti/ tw=n kalw=n kai\ spoudai/wn ou)k a)ph=n;
Notes:
[1] cf. generally
alpha 741,
alpha 4170. The present headword (+ gloss) is accusative plural, presumably extracted from the quotation given -- on which see next two notes.
[2] Perhaps in
De natura animalium 4.1. Not, at any rate, in the quotation which now follows: see next note.
[3]
Polybius 8.9.8-9, himself quoting
Theopompus (FGrH 115 F225; cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 6.260E = 6.77 Kaibel), on the
hetairoi of Philip II of Macedon.
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
Keywords: athletics; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 December 1999@09:41:39.
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