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Headword: *)ektenw=s
Adler number: epsilon,637
Translated headword: enthusiastically, intensely
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] wholeheartedly, eagerly.[1]
Polybius [writes]: "Achaios, having received Bolis enthusiastically and cordially, questioned him at length about every aspect of the plan".[1]
Greek Original:
*)ektenw=s: o(loyu/xws, proqu/mws. *polu/bios: o( de\ *)axaio\s prosdeca/menos e)ktenw=s kai\ filanqrw/pws to\n *bw=lin a)ne/krine dia\ pleio/nwn u(pe\r e(ka/stou tw=n kata\ me/ros.
Notes:
[1] Similarly (glossed proqu/mws, diatetame/nws) in Hesychius, where Latte claims the headword adverb as quoted from the Septuagint (e.g. Judith 4.12).
[2] Polybius 8.19.1 (web address 1), copied to beta 480; see also pi 1653. (8.15-21 recount events of 214 BCE; Bolis, an otherwise unknown Cretan, has a "plan" to capture, under the guise of a rescue, the beleaguered Seleucid pretender Achaios.)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; politics; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 June 2001@05:46:57.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 9 September 2002@01:07:23.
Catharine Roth (added link and cross-reference) on 17 July 2004@17:59:20.
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