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Headword:
*)endee/steros
Adler number: epsilon,1155
Translated headword: rather inadequate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who/which is] rather deficient.
"He was always rather inadequate to the prevailing need. Hence in everything he wrote one could find [items] possessing a high-minded and effective character, but not at all well-fitted to the verses".[1]
Greek Original:*)endee/steros: e)lleipe/steros. e)ndee/steros de\ h)=n a)ei\ th=s sumbainou/shs xrei/as. dio\ kai\ o(/sa e)/grafen, eu(/roi tis a)\n to\ me\n u(yhlo/noun kai\ telesiourgo\n e)/xonta, toi=s de\ e)/pesin ou) pa/nu sunhrmosme/na.
Notes:
The headword is comparative degree, masculine nominative singular, of the adjective
e)ndeh/s, -e/s "needy". It is illustrated by (though not necessarily extracted from) the quotation given.
[1]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore, fr. 113 Zintzen (61 Asmus); cf.
rho 287,
tau 262.
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 15 October 2005@16:26:32.
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