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Headword:
*)episei=sai
Adler number: epsilon,2560
Translated headword: to threaten
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to impose. "They were urging [them] not to threaten them with a more serious danger".[1]
And elsewhere: "[he] having threatened every kind of deceit against the petitioners."[2] Meaning having imposed.
Greek Original:*)episei=sai: e)penegkei=n. pareka/loun mh\ xalepw/teron au)toi=s e)pisei=sai to\n ki/ndunon. kai\ au)=qis: a(/panta tro/pon a)pa/ths toi=s deome/nois e)pisei/sas. a)nti\ tou= e)pagagw/n.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is aorist active infinitive of the verb
e)pisei/w, literally 'I shake at'; see LSJ s.v. for its range of literal and figurative senses.
[1] Quotation not identified by Adler, but identifiable via the TLG as an approximation of
Josephus,
Jewish War 4.302. See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXIV.
[2]
Menander Protector, part of fr. 12.2 Blockley (130-131), on the Avar khan Baian (cf.
alpha 209) pressing negotiations with the Lombards (cf.
lambda 21 generally) in 567 to his advantage. On the Avars see
alpha 18.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 November 2007@07:11:54.
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