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Headword: *xeirismo/n
Adler number: chi,246
Translated headword: handling
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] treatment. Polybius [writes]: "whenever these things occurred with equal speed in handling."[1]
And elsewhere: "so that the handling of the affairs seemed not just illogical but even insane."[2] Meaning treatment, activation.
Greek Original:
*xeirismo/n: e)pixei/rhsin. *polu/bios: o(/tan ge/nhtai tau=ta kata\ xeirismo\n i)sotaxh=. kai\ au)=qis: w(/ste mh\ mo/non a)lo/giston, a)lla\ kai\ maniw/dh fai/nesqai to\n xeirismo\n tw=n pragma/twn. a)nti\ tou= th\n e)pixei/rhsin, th\n pra=cin.
Notes:
The headword is accusative case, presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Polybius 10.44.9.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable; Adler suggests Polybius again; cf. in any event upsilon 269.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs; politics
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 March 2008@13:48:52.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added keyword, set status) on 21 March 2008@22:18:11.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 23 March 2008@05:18:10.
David Whitehead on 11 November 2013@05:08:09.
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