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Headword:
*)epithdeie/steros
Adler number: epsilon,2686
Translated headword: more friendly, rather friendly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "For besides, Mithridates was in other respects a just king and more/rather friendly to the Romans."[1]
Greek Original:*)epithdeie/steros: kai\ ga\r o( *miqrida/ths ta/ te a)/lla e)/ndikos basileu\s h)=n kai\ *(rwmai/ois e)pithdeie/steros.
Notes:
The headword, an irregular comparative of the adjective
e)pith/deios (
epsilon 2685,
epsilon 2687,
epsilon 2688), is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] A fuller version of what has already appeared at
epsilon 1178. Roos (1912: 18) tentatively attributed it to Arrian's
Parthica and suggested that it alludes to the Caucasian-Iberian Mithridates who took control of Armenia with the backing of the Romans. See
Cassius Dio 26.3.4; Tacitus,
Annals 6.32 ff, 11.8, 12.44 ff.; RE s.v. Mithridates (33).
Roos, A. G. (1912). Studia Arrianea. Leipzig.
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; politics
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 December 2007@01:37:18.
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