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Headword: *fere/gguos
Adler number: phi,207
Translated headword: surety-giving, trusty, capable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] secure, a trustworthy guarantor.[1]
Herodotus [writes]: "myself, I am not capable of providing you such power as to restore [you]."[2]
Greek Original:
*fere/gguos: a)sfalh/s, a)cio/pistos e)gguhth/s. *(hro/dotos: au)to\s me\n u(mi=n ou) fere/gguos ei)mi\ du/namin parasxei=n tosau/thn w(/ste kata/gein.
Notes:
See also phi 208 (and for the second gloss cf. under epsilon 3981).
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius phi113 Theodoridis.
[2] Herodotus 5.30.4 (web address 1); Aristagoras to the exiled Naxians.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; imagery; law; politics
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 September 2011@01:13:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 28 September 2011@03:06:02.
David Whitehead on 5 December 2013@06:02:49.
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