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Headword: *fere/gguos
Adler number: phi,208
Translated headword: surety-giving, trusty, capable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one who has received something and is able to pay it back, as if [to say] sufficient, able to accept the undertaking. "For what do you command, of [things] which I am capable of?" That is, of [things] which I am steadfast in doing.[1]
Also a surety.[2]
Greek Original:
*fere/gguos: o( e)kdeca/meno/s ti kai\ duna/menos a)poti=sai, oi(=on a)cio/xrews, duna/menos a)nade/casqai th\n e)gxei/rhsin. ti/ ga\r keleu/eis, w(=n e)gw\ fere/gguos; toute/stin w(=n e)gw\ ei)s to\ pra/ttein a)sfalh/s ei)mi. kai\ bebaiwth/s.
Notes:
[1] Sophocles, Electra 942 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2] From a gloss on Herodotus 5.30.4 (for which see phi 207).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; law; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 September 2011@19:42:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks) on 29 September 2011@03:14:55.
David Whitehead on 5 December 2013@06:03:37.
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