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Headword:
*)epi/stasis
Adler number: epsilon,2608
Translated headword: attention, pause for reflection, observation
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] wisdom.
Attention also [means] diligence, and emulation.
Polybius [writes]: "to us Hasdrubal[1] has shown forth to be worthy of attention and of emulation."[2] And elsewhere: "the affairs of the cities turned out to be more diverse than attention and change [sc. would have suggested]."[3]
*)epi/stasis: gnw=sis. *)epi/stasis kai\ h( prosoxh/, kai\ h( mi/mhsis. *polu/bios: o( de\ *)asdrou/bas pe/fuken h(mi=n a)/cios e)pista/sews ei)=nai kai\ zh/lou. kai\ au)=qis: ta\ de\ tw=n po/lewn pra/gmata a)lloiote/ras e)/tuxen e)pista/sews kai\ metabolh=s.
Notes:
For this sense of the headword
e)pi/stasis see LSJ s.v. II.2. It is glossed likewise in
Hesychius epsilon5229, but with an additional definition: 'or a certain part of a ship' (evidently the prow: see LSJ s.v.). See also
Lexica Segueriana 232.8.
[1] Son of Hamilcar Barca (OCD(4) under 'Hamilcar(2)' and
alpha 1596) and younger brother of Hannibal (OCD(4) s.v. and
alpha 2452). Hasdrubal assumed control of
Spain after Hannibal moved north with his army in May 218 BCE.
[2] An approximation of
Polybius 11.2.4 (web address 1).
[3]
Polybius fr. 149 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 533) that this fragment was attributed to
Polybius by Ursinus (Fulvio Orsini, 1529-1600).
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; politics
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 7 December 2007@00:59:17.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (more headwords; tweaked tr; modified and expanded primary primary note; cosmetics) on 7 December 2007@05:11:22.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 7 December 2007@22:38:51.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 19 October 2012@04:55:59.
David Whitehead (updated 2 refs) on 3 August 2014@08:17:42.
David Whitehead (coding and other cosmetics) on 31 January 2016@08:19:29.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 21 October 2017@01:03:32.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography) on 19 September 2018@12:51:44.
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