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Headword:
*eu)=
pefukw/s
Adler number: epsilon,3648
Translated headword: naturally gifted
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] well-fitting.
"He ordered the soldiers to go in [sc. to the water]. For he was naturally gifted, above all else, in instilling with courage those being summoned and making them sympathetic."[1]
Greek Original:*eu)= pefukw/s: a)rmo/dios. parekeleu/eto e)mbai/nein tou\s stratiw/tas. kai\ ga\r h)=n eu)= pefukw/s, ei) kai\ pro\s a)/llo ti, pro\s to\ qa/rsos e)mbalei=n kai\ sumpaqei=s poih=sai tou\s parakaloume/nous.
Notes:
The headword (a two-word phrase in the Greek) is presumably extracted from the quotation given, though it also occurs three more times in
Polybius, as well as in other authors (e.g.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Plutarch).
[1] An abbreviation of
Polybius 10.14.9-10 (on Scipio Africanus).
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 5 February 2008@21:02:29.
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