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Headword: *)epi/pnoia
Adler number: epsilon,2522
Translated headword: fervour
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] inspiration.
Polybius [writes]: "the Romans were filled with a sort of divine fervour, having fortified their zeal with irresistible strength".[1]
Greek Original:
*)epi/pnoia: e)nqousiasmo/s. *polu/bios: oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi qei/as e)pipnoi/as tino\s e)peplh/rwnto th/n te proqumi/an a)nantagwni/stw| sqe/nei fraca/menoi.
Note:
[1] In Büttner-Wobst as Polybius fr. 44, but in fact (as Büttner-Wobst (520) and de Boor pointed out) an almost verbatim quotation of Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 5.5.1.
References:
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: definition; historiography; history; military affairs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 November 2007@10:06:14.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 13 November 2007@10:52:47.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 14 November 2007@03:14:51.
Catharine Roth (bibliography) on 26 December 2009@19:49:37.
David Whitehead on 17 October 2012@07:55:52.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@10:44:31.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, expanded bibliography) on 12 September 2018@21:32:46.
Ronald Allen (my typo n.1) on 13 September 2018@13:32:13.
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