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Headword: *)etri/beto
Adler number: epsilon,3335
Translated headword: was being wasted
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] was being deferred, was being delayed. "With disagreements lasting so long, the attack was being wasted."[1]
Greek Original:
*)etri/beto: u(pereti/qeto, a)neba/lleto. me/xri pollou= diaferome/nwn, e)tri/beto h( prosbolh/.
Notes:
The headword is imperfect, third person singular, imperfect middle/passive, of tri/bw (cf. generally tau 947, tau 949). It is presumably extracted from the quotation given here.
[1] Quotation not identified by Adler, but a TLG search shows it to be Josephus, Jewish War 5.322 (web address 1). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXIV.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 January 2008@06:12:08.
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Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 24 January 2008@00:35:15.
David Whitehead (x-refs) on 24 January 2008@03:17:01.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 20 March 2011@06:05:08.
David Whitehead on 11 October 2011@04:48:08.
David Whitehead on 5 November 2012@04:12:00.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 11 November 2012@21:40:43.
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