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Headword: *gnwmateu/wn
Adler number: gamma,335
Translated headword: making decisions [on]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning someone] judging, keenly discerning.[1]
Or gnwmateu/w ["I make a decision"], [meaning] I decide.
"Discussing some things, they make decisions on others."[2]
Greek Original:
*gnwmateu/wn: diakri/nwn, diaginw/skwn a)kribw=s. h)\ *gnwmateu/w, to\ bouleu/omai. e(/tera dialego/menoi, e(/tera gnwmateu/ousi.
Notes:
[1] cf. the scholia to Plato, Republic 516E, where the accusative of this participle occurs.
[2] Menander Protector fr. 5.4 Blockley (52-53), on the duplicity of Avar envoys during negotiations with the Romans in 561-562. On the Avars, see alpha 18 generally. Find another extract from this fragment at upsilon 620.
Reference:
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 July 2002@10:58:27.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 16 July 2002@03:11:26.
David Whitehead (updated ref) on 3 January 2012@05:07:33.
David Whitehead (betacode and other cosmetics) on 10 June 2012@04:32:29.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and keywords) on 25 November 2024@11:15:00.

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