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Headword: *dikaiopragei=n
Adler number: delta,1068
Translated headword: to act honestly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"And to act honestly to no one beyond what was commanded."
Greek Original:
*dikaiopragei=n: kai\ mhdeni\ dikaiopragei=n pare\c tw=n prostattome/nwn.
Note:
Evidently (as Adler noted: 'cf.') an attempt to reproduce Polybius 8.26.9: kai\ mhde\n i)diopragei=n pa/rec tw=n prostattome/nwn; "and [Hannibal ordered] them not to take any action on their own beyond what was commanded" (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 February 2004@00:11:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 3 February 2004@03:13:00.
David Whitehead on 3 February 2004@03:13:14.
Catharine Roth (modified translation in the note) on 3 February 2004@14:50:42.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 13 October 2005@08:13:10.
David Whitehead (tweaked note) on 9 March 2011@09:48:21.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 9 March 2011@11:07:44.
David Whitehead on 10 July 2012@08:15:54.
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