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Headword:
*)epi\
tw=n
u(pokeime/nwn
Adler number: epsilon,2719
Translated headword: on the basis of the status quo
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] on the basis of things that have already happened.
"He sent envoys to make things clear: Publius [Scipio] approved of peace, but his advisers differed and maintained that matters should remain on the basis of the status quo".[1] [Meaning on the basis of] things that existed.
Greek Original:*)epi\ tw=n u(pokeime/nwn: e)pi\ tw=n fqasa/ntwn gene/sqai. pre/sbeis de\ e)/pempen diasafou=ntas, *po/plion me\n eu)dokei=n th\n ei)rh/nhn, tou\s de\ e)n tw=| sunedri/w| diafe/resqai kai\ fa/nai diame/nein e)pi\ tw=n u(pokeime/nwn. e)nestw/twn.
Notes:
The headword phrase is presumably extracted from the quotation given (one of 27 instances of this phrase in
Polybius).
[1] An approximation of
Polybius 14.2.11, on events in
Africa at the end of the third century BCE.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 May 2003@08:13:00.
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