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Headword:
*)epilogisa/menos
Adler number: epsilon,2448
Translated headword: having reckoned in addition
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "And having reckoned in addition upon the advantages he thought he would gain in battle, he persuades [...]."[1]
Greek Original:*)epilogisa/menos: kai\ e)f' w(=n e)no/mize pleonekth/sein kata\ th\n ma/xhn e)pilogisa/menos, pei/qei.
Notes:
The headword is aorist participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb
e)pilogi/zomai. It is presumably extracted from the quotation given here, though note earlier instances in [
Demosthenes] (44.34 & 54).
[1]
Polybius fr. 147 Büttner-Wobst, probably via a lost part of the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. Büttner-Wobst notes (533) that Casaubon attributed this fragment to
Polybius; Schweighäuser, however, maintained doubts about the attribution (ibid.). Büttner-Wobst, following Dindorf, prints (ibid.)
a)f' w(=n in place of the Suda's
e)f' w(=n, but this renders little difference in the translation.
Reference:
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: William Hutton on 13 November 2007@06:31:35.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 13 November 2007@06:46:15.
David Whitehead on 16 October 2012@05:41:54.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note; another keyword) on 29 January 2016@06:32:16.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography) on 12 September 2018@20:26:36.
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