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Headword:
*)epipo/nws
Adler number: epsilon,2532
Translated headword: laboriously
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] with difficulty. "Being naked [or: scantily-clad], in the season of winter taking shelter laboriously in a cave, he found [some] sheep, killed them, and dressed himself in their skins."[1]
Greek Original:*)epipo/nws: xalepw=s. o( de\ gumno\s w)/n, w(/ra| xeimw=nos e)n a)/ntrw| e)naulisa/menos e)pipo/nws, pro/bata eu(rw\n a)nei=le kai\ tai=s dorai=s au)tw=n h)mfie/sqh.
Notes:
The headword adverb is probably extracted from the quotation given, though it is common enough from
Thucydides onwards.
[1] Tentatively attributed by Adler to either
Iamblichus or
Aelian; now
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr. 114 Habrich. (For a broadly similar story see under
epsilon 3851).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 November 2007@01:47:17.
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