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Headword: *)ekpaqh/s
Adler number: epsilon,553
Translated headword: passionate
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aelian [writes]: "having become [so] passionate for unmixed wine that even during daytime he often appeared drunk in front of his friends".
Greek Original:
*)ekpaqh/s. *ai)liano/s: e)kpaqh= de\ gegono/ta kai\ pro\s ta\s a)kratoposi/as w(/ste kai\ meq' h(me/ran pleona/kis mequ/onta katafanh= gene/sqai toi=s fi/lois.
Notes:
This quotation about King Philip II of Macedon (phi 354), preserved in Polybius 8.9.4 (web address 1), actually comes from Theopompus of Chios (theta 172): see FGrH 115 F225. There seems to be no connection to Aelian.
For the headword adjective in a different sense see epsilon 552.
Reference:
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; ethics; food; historiography; history
Translated by: Alexandra Trachsel on 1 July 2007@16:11:22.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (fixed link, added keyword, set status) on 1 July 2007@18:51:34.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 2 July 2007@03:14:46.
Catharine Roth (bibliography) on 27 December 2009@00:57:03.
David Whitehead (another note) on 7 August 2012@07:25:14.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 26 August 2013@16:13:03.
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