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Headword:
*)epiqerapeu/wn
Adler number: epsilon,2326
Translated headword: nursing, tending
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning [he] putting right, using forethought for.
Thucydides [writes]: "Alcibiades, nursing [sc. plans for] his own return to his native land [and] knowing, if he did not destroy it, that there would be a time for him ..."[1]
*)epiqerapeu/wn: a)nti\ tou= diorqou/menos, promhqou/menos. *qoukudi/dhs: o( de\ *)alkibia/dhs e)piqerapeu/wn th\n e(autou= ka/qodon ei)s th\n patri/da ei)dw/s, ei) mh\ diafqerei= au)th/n, o(/ti e)/stai pote\ au)tw=|.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is present active participle (masculine nominative singular) of the verb
e)piqerapeu/w.
[1] An approximation of
Thucydides 8.47.1 (web address 1). For Alkibiades see generally
alpha 1280.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; imagery; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 October 2007@07:04:04.
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