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Headword:
*)epikremame/nou
Adler number: epsilon,2418
Translated headword: hanging over
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] impending.[1] "They reckoned that everything could be endured because of the magnitude of the danger still hanging over them."[2]
Greek Original:*)epikremame/nou: e)pikeime/nou. oi( de\ u(po\ mege/qous tou= e)pikremame/nou e)/ti kindu/nou pa/nta oi)sta\ e)logi/zonto.
Notes:
[1] The headword is perfect middle-passive participle of
e)pikrema/nnumi, masculine/neuter genitive singular. It is probably extracted from the quotation given here (though there is an earlier instance in
Herodotus 9.33.5).
[2]
Thucydides 7.75.7 (web address 1), quoted approximately; see also
omicroniota 177.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 November 2007@00:41:26.
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