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Headword: *)endei=ktai
Adler number: epsilon,1165
Translated headword: complainants, informers
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"For he is being attacked by informers, who grow as a malignancy[1] in Cyrene".[2] [It means] sycophants, accusers.
Greek Original:
*)endei=ktai. spara/ttetai ga\r u(po\ e)ndeiktw=n, kakw=s e)pifu/ntwn th=| *kurh/nh|. sukofantw=n, kathgo/rwn.
Notes:
For this headword see also epsilon 1166.
[1] The phrase kakw=s e)pifu/ntwn, literally 'badly growing on', is translated thus because that verb can refer to anatomical parts and excrescences (see e.g. Aristotle, History of Animals 605a3; also in Galen).
[2] Synesius, Letter 118.9 (256b). See translation at web address 1.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; geography; imagery; law; medicine; rhetoric
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 1 September 2005@21:19:41.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; cosmetics) on 2 September 2005@04:43:57.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 23 August 2012@04:22:31.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 18 November 2014@23:18:04.
Catharine Roth (translated title) on 29 November 2014@23:35:54.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 26 April 2023@19:01:09.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 31 October 2023@19:31:07.
Catharine Roth (added a link) on 1 November 2023@00:38:00.
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