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Headword:
*gegannume/nos
Adler number: gamma,89
Translated headword: exulting in
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who is] glorying in.
"How was a man exulting from childhood in royal pomp and great flattery and choosing a very barbarous way of life thus disposed?"[1]
Greek Original:*gegannume/nos: e)pagallo/menos. pw=s de\ a)nh\r basilei/w| tu/fw| e)k pai/dwn kai\ kolakei/a| pollh=| gegannume/nos di/aita/n te laxw\n barbarwta/thn ou(/tw diateqh=nai.
Notes:
The headword participle purports to be extracted from the quotation given, but see next note.
[1] An approximation of
Agathias,
Histories 2.28, on Chosroes. See in full at
chi 418, with other changes from the original. (Common to both Suda entries, though, is that the participle transmitted as
gegannume/nos should be
geganwme/nos; cf.
gamma 88.)
Keywords: biography; children; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 June 2002@20:51:05.
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