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Headword: *(ike/teuma
Adler number: iota,262
Translated headword: supplication
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to beg and supplicate in a servile manner.[1]
"Abgar met Trajan as he approached and obtained pardon; for the child was a splendid supplication for him."[2]
Greek Original:
*(ike/teuma: to\ douloprepw=s parakalei=n kai\ i(keteu/ein. o( de\ *au)/garos a)ph/nthse *trai+anw=| prosio/nti kai\ suggnw/mhs e)/tuxen: o( ga\r pai=s lampro/n oi( i(ke/teuma h)=n.
Notes:
[1] For this glossing cf. iota 266.
[2] Cassius Dio 68.21.2. (Compare generally Thucydides 1.137.1.) On Abgar, King of Edessa, see alpha 177 and alpha 4409.
Keywords: biography; children; definition; ethics; historiography; history; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 August 2001@00:55:56.
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