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Headword:
*)epibebh/kasin
Adler number: epsilon,2233
Translated headword: they have come upon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they happened on, they were contemporary with.[1] "These men were not born under the time-honored way of life, but they overlapped with and met those who were [so] born, and being helped by them, then became guides to many good things for their contemporaries, and especially became eloquent heralds of the ancient tales."[2]
Greek Original:*)epibebh/kasin: e)ne/tuxon, su/gxronoi e)ge/nonto. ou(=toi me\n ou)k e)ge/nonto e)pi\ th=s a)rxaioprepou=s politei/as: toi=s de\ genome/nois e)pibebh/kasi kai\ e)ne/tuxon, kai\ par' e)kei/nwn w)felhqe/ntes, e)/peita toi=s kaq' e(autou\s e)ge/nonto pollw=n a)gaqw=n h(gemo/nes, tw=n te a)/llwn kai\ palaiw=n dihghma/twn polu/fwnoi kh/rukes.
Notes:
[1] The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is third person plural, perfect, of
e)pibai/nw.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 100 Zintzen (51 Asmus); quoted more fully at
epsilon 2744.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 September 2007@01:31:06.
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