[Meaning being] possible.[1]
Josephus [writes]: "but now, hoping to put the Jews to shame by being unwilling, even though it was possible, to harm them [unnecessarily ...]".[2]
*)eco/n: dunato/n. *)iw/shpos: nu=n de\ *)ioudai/ous e)lpi/sas duswph/sein e)n tw=| kakou=n e)co\n mh\ qe/lein.
The headword is neuter accusative singular of the present participle of
e)/cesti,
it is possible. It is frequently used as accusative absolute, as in the
Josephus passage quoted here (from which the headword is perhaps, but not necessarily, extracted).
cf.
epsilon 1800 and see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon. (This is the meaning of
dunato/n in a passive sense. In an active sense the meaning is
strong, mighty, able to). The synonymity of
e)co/n and
dunato/n is nicely illustrated by
pi 693, where they appear together as glosses of
paro/n.
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish War 5.333, with slight differences (see web address 1); see already
delta 1677. The subject is Titus (
*kai=sar), son of the new emperor Vespasian, during the siege of
Jerusalem. For
Josephus see generally
iota 502,
iota 503.
Flavius Josephus. Flavii Iosephi opera. B. Niese. Berlin. Weidmann. 1895.
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