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Headword:
*)isxu/s
Adler number: iota,732
Translated headword: strength
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Strength is a symmetry of the similar parts, [i.e.] of the sinews and bones and breath."[1]
"The places were strongly vertical and fortified with surrounding rocks."[2]
Greek Original:*)isxu/s: i)sxu/s e)sti summetri/a tw=n o(moiomerw=n, neu/rwn te kai\ o)stw=n kai\ pneu/matos. ta\ xwri/a i)sxurw=s o)/rqia h)=n kai\ li/qwn peribolai=s w)xu/rwto.
Notes:
[1] Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 236.13-14 Wallies.
[2] Quotation (with an adverbial form of the related adjective
i)sxuro/s,
iota 730) unidentifiable (but perhaps
Cassius Dio, who uses the idiom
i)sxurw=s w)xu/rwto at 56.15.1).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 June 2006@15:04:03.
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