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Headword:
*eu)dokei=n
Adler number: epsilon,3422
Translated headword: to be well-pleased
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to agree with [someone].
"He said that he was well-pleased with what was being said, if he could receive pledges."[1] Meaning [that he] was gratified.
Greek Original:*eu)dokei=n: sugkatati/qesqai. o( de\ e)/fh eu)dokei=n toi=s legome/nois, ei) la/bh| pi/steis. a)nti\ tou= a)re/skesqai.
Notes:
The headword, a present infinitive, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
cf.
epsilon 3423.
[1]
Polybius fr. 155 Büttner-Wobst; individual unknown. Büttner-Wobst notes (534) that this fragment was attributed to
Polybius by Schweighäuser.
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 28 January 2008@21:30:14.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 29 January 2008@04:50:43.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 5 November 2012@09:39:35.
Ronald Allen (Cross-reference typo.) on 30 January 2018@23:56:45.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography) on 25 September 2018@18:24:25.
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