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Headword:
*xrh=n
Adler number: chi,493
Translated headword: it was necessary
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [*xrh=n means the same as] e)/dei.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] e)xrh=n ["one should have"], [meaning] it was fitting.[2]
"It was necessary, the saying [goes], not to decipher in the stars how things were with you, nor to find out what the rumor was saying, but rather to have you present with us, or if not, to benefit from your letters."[3]
Greek Original:*xrh=n: e)/dei. kai\ *)exrh=n, e)/prepe. xrh=n de\ mh/, to\ lego/menon, a)/strois ta\ kaq' u(ma=s shmai/nesqai, mhde\ ti/ le/gei fh/mh punqa/nesqai, a)lla\ ma/lista me\n e)/xein suno/ntas, ei) de\ mh/, gra/mmasin u(mete/rois e)ntugxa/nein.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Plato,
Apology 17A (web address 1) and
Gorgias 458B (web address 2), where the headword appears. See also
chi 467 and
chi 471.
[2] See also
epsilon 4042.
[3]
Synesius,
Epistle 7.169C, to his sister Stratonike and her husband Theodore: see translation at web address 3.
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 April 2008@04:16:37.
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