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Headword: *)akra/tou
Adler number: alpha,967
Translated headword: unmixed, unrestrained, untempered, violent
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] boiling-over.
"[...] lest an irrational crowd [...] [mis]interpret the misfortune because of violent emotion."[1]
Greek Original:
*)akra/tou: u(perzeou/shs. mh/pote a)lo/gistos o)/xlos di' o)rgh=s a)kra/tou la/bh| th\n a)potuxi/an.
Notes:
The headword is feminine genitive singular of this adjective (cf. alpha 960 etc.), presumably extracted from the quotation given. LSJ entry at web address 1.
[1] An abridgement of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.54.4. Dionysius speaks of the danger of the mob lynching the Roman general Coriolanus (fl. 493 BCE; OCD(4) p.897).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: Oliver Phillips ✝ on 22 June 2000@14:05:10.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 4 June 2002@11:17:37.
David Whitehead (more headword options; another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 30 January 2012@07:07:15.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 29 April 2012@00:21:09.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 30 July 2014@03:57:07.
David Whitehead on 19 May 2015@02:59:15.
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