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Headword: *)etexni/teue
Adler number: epsilon,3303
Translated headword: was contriving
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] enquired with cunning and craft. Josephus [writes]: "[she] was contriving to learn in what way he excels so much in virtue.”[1]
Greek Original:
*)etexni/teue: meta\ te/xnhs kai\ do/lou h)reu/na. *)iw/shpos: e)texni/teue maqei=n, ti/ni tro/pw| tosou=ton proe/xei kat' a)reth/n.
Notes:
The headword is imperfect, third person singular, of the verb texniteu/w, attested only in Josephus (see below); identically glossed in ps.-Zonaras and the Lexicon Vindobonense.
[1] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 5.307 (web address 1), on Delilah (delta 31, end) and Samson (sigma 87, sigma 88).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; religion; women
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 23 January 2008@17:28:42.
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