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Headword:
*kaqiei/s
Adler number: kappa,101
Translated headword: initiating
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning [he] establishing, having begun.[1]
"Initiating an experiment and contriving to perform a test everywhere, he was undertaking the business among the Lydians of the cauldron and the tortoise and the lamb."[2]
Greek Original:*kaqiei/s: a)nti\ tou= katabalw/n, e)narca/menos. o( de\ pei=ran kaqiei\s kai\ e)pibouleu/wn e)le/gcai pantaxo/qen ta\ tou= le/bhtos kai\ th=s xelw/nhs kai\ tou= a)rnou= e)n *ludoi=s e)palama=to.
Notes:
The headword participle is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] cf. generally
kappa 99. In classical Greek the verb more commonly reflects its literal sense of 'sending down', 'letting down', etc. The figurative meanings here are typical of later Greek.
[2]
Aelian fr. 70d Domingo-Forasté (67 Hercher). "The business among the Lydians..." is evidently a reference to
Herodotus 1.48 (web address 1), where King Croesus of
Lydia (
kappa 2497,
kappa 2498,
kappa 2499,
kappa 2500) tests the oracles of the world by boiling the animals in question in a bronze cauldron and instructing his envoys to ask the oracles what he is doing.
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; historiography; history; religion; zoology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 8 March 2008@07:38:56.
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