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Headword:
*)eca/nth
Adler number: epsilon,1546
Translated headword: danger-free, out of danger
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] healthy, and outside of ruin.[1]
"O Zeus, that I may become danger-free [in respect] of this disease!"[2]
The
nu is inserted for euphony.[3]
"But the wounded man, having come out of his injury, even accepts a third attempt."[4]
And
Aelian [writes]: "but [his] daughter, who was ignorant of that man's schemes and plots against him, comes safe out of the evil [situation]."[5]
It is also an interjection.
"Being safe I see another man having my misfortune."
Plato [writes this] in
Phaedrus.[6]
*)eca/nth: u(gih=, kai\ e)/cw a)/ths. w)= *zeu=, gene/sqai me th=sd' e)ca/nth nou/sou. to\ n e)/gkeitai di' eu)stomi/an. a)ta\r e)ca/nths tou= ptw/matos o( traumati/as geno/menos kai\ tri/ton a)=qlon a)spa/zetai. kai\ *ai)liano/s: quga/thr de/, h(/per h)=n oi( tw=n e)kei/nou mhxanw=n te kai\ e)piboulw=n a)maqh/s, e)ca/nths gi/netai tou= kakou=. e)/sti de\ kai\ e)pifw/nhma. e)ca/nths leu/sw tou)mo\n kako\n a)/llon e)/xonta. *pla/twn e)n *fai/drw|.
Notes:
[1] Masculine/feminine accusative singular of
e)ca/nths; cf.
epsilon 1545.
[2] Tragic (or comic) fragment.
[3] That is, on the assumption that the adjective is derived from
e)c a)/ths, the
nu needs to be explained. For the entry so far, cf.
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon,
Zenobius 3.95,
Hesychius, and other lexica.
[4] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.18.22; a Roman soldier makes three attempts to scale the wall and parapet of the Persian-held garrison at Beïudaes (summer 587); cf. de Boor (108) and Whitby (70); quoted more fully at
sigma 100. On Beïudaes see
alpha 3361 note.
[5]
Aelian fr. 74h Domingo-Forasté (71 Hercher).
[6]
Zenobius 3.95, quoting
Plato,
Phaedrus 244E. See Tosi (cited under
alpha 378) for more instances.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keywords: athletics; biography; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; philosophy; proverbs; religion; tragedy; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 June 2007@00:48:23.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 10 June 2007@05:02:23.
David Whitehead (expanded n.6) on 15 August 2012@08:44:39.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 10 September 2012@05:30:11.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 10 September 2012@22:59:32.
Catharine Roth (updated reference) on 5 October 2012@01:46:20.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4; added bibliography, cross-reference, and keywords) on 24 February 2025@12:04:52.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation at Ron Allen's suggestion) on 28 February 2025@00:41:13.
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