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[Meaning] not he who has come out of a different [country], as some have interpreted, [i.e.] of another nation, but he who is from the same city and otherwise friendly, but not belonging to the same family.[1]
"They were fighting a civil war worse than the foreign [war]."[2]
"For telling lies is something foreign and alien to a wise man".[3]
"He was the first to give Romans experience of foreign wars."[4]
"They are undertaking a war long and foreign."[5]

*)oqnei=os: ou)x o( e)k th=s a)llodaph=s a)figme/nos, w(/s tines a)pe/dosan, a)lloeqnh/s, a)ll' o( a)po\ po/lews th=s au)th=s w)\n kai\ a)/llws e)pith/deio/s pws, ou) me/ntoi kata\ ge/nos prosh/kwn. e)pole/moun e)/mfulon po/lemon kaki/ona tou= o)qnei/ou. o)qnei=on ga/r ti kai\ e)/kfulon yeu/desqai sofw=| a)ndri/. prw=tos o)qnei/wn kate/sthsen ei)s pei/ran pole/mwn *(rwmai/ous. po/lemon makro\n kai\ o)qnei=on e)kfe/rousin.

cf. already omicron 83.
[1] According to Adler, [G.] Wentzel attributed this gloss to a rhetorical source.
[2] Ultimate source unknown. (According to Adler, this and the remaining quotations here were transmitted through the excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus.)
[3] Menander Protector fr. 19.1 Blockley (174-175), where the true reading is actually 'to a Turkish man'; cf. generally epsilon 719. The quote is part of the severe reproach to Roman envoy Valentinus given by Turkish khan Turxanthus in 576. On Valentinus and Turxanthus see epsilon 659 note. Find further extracts from this fragment at epsilon 659, epsiloniota 208, pi 2799, and sigma 413.
[4] Ultimate source unknown.
[5] Ultimate source unknown.

David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 8 November 2009@04:50:05.
David Whitehead (expanded n.3) on 11 April 2011@06:08:57.
David Whitehead (updated n.3) on 3 January 2012@06:56:22.
David Whitehead on 23 June 2013@06:20:01.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography and cross-references) on 25 October 2024@11:18:55.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 26 October 2024@00:56:45.

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