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Headword: *filomaqh/s
Adler number: phi,385
Translated headword: eager to learn
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a man of experience.
Xenophon [writes]: "as you are eager to learn all these things, you must obviously put to use not only whatever you can learn from others but also be [yourself] a creator of stratagems against the enemy."[1]
Also [attested is the related noun filomaqei/a ["eagerness to learn"].
Greek Original:
*filomaqh/s: o( e)/mpeiros. *cenofw=n: dei= dh\ filomaqh= tou/twn a(pa/ntwn o)/nta, ou)x oi(=s a)\n ma/qois tou/tois mo/nois xrh=sqai, a)lla\ kai\ poihth\n ei)=nai tw=n pro\s tou\s polemi/ous mhxanhma/twn. kai\ *filomaqei/a.
Note:
[1] Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.38 (advice to Cyrus from his father: web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2001@02:54:55.
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