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Headword:
*)ecei/h
Adler number: epsilon,1690
Translated headword: it was permissible
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] it was agreed, it was customary.[1]
Xenophon [writes]: "for everyone knew that it was permissible to approach him [
Xenophon] while he was breakfasting or dining, and if he was asleep to wake him up and speak to him, if anyone had something to say which had a bearing on the war".[2]
*)ecei/h: sunekexw/rhto, ei)/qisto. *cenofw=n: h)/|desan ga\r pa/ntes, o(/ti e)cei/h au)tw=| kai\ a)ristw=nti kai\ deipnou=nti proselqei=n, kai\ ei) kaqeu/dei e)pegeirou=nta ei)pei=n, ei)/ tis ti e)/xoi pro\s po/lemon.
Notes:
[1] The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is present optative, third person singular, of
e)/ceimi from
ei)=nai "to be." The optative is used here in indirect discourse, to represent a present indicative in the direct statement.
[2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 4.3.10 (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 November 2000@08:34:30.
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