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Headword:
*pih/nanta
Adler number: pi,1569
Translated headword: having fattened, having enriched
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning him] having made [them] fat.[1] "[It is said that] when Alyattes was besieging
Priene,
Bias the wise man, having fattened two mules, drove them out into the camp. When [Alyattes] saw them he was amazed, that their [sc. the Prienians'] prosperity extended even to animals. And he decided to make a treaty and sent out a messenger."[2]
*pih/nanta: liparou\s e)rgasa/menon. *)alua/ttou poliorkou=ntos *prih/nhn, to\n *bi/anta to\n sofo\n pih/nanta du/o h(mio/nous e)cela/sai ei)s to\ strato/pedon. to\n de\ sunido/nta kataplagh=nai, to\ me/xri kai\ a)lo/gwn diatei/nein au)tw=n th\n eu)qhni/an. kai\ e)boulh/qh spei/sasqai kai\ ei)se/pemyen a)/ggelon.
Notes:
[1] The headword -- Ionic aorist participle of
piai/nw, masculine accusative singular -- is presumably extracted from the quotation given. (For the Attic aorist of this verb, see
pi 1544,
pi 1547.)
[2]
Diogenes Laertius 1.83. (On this source, and episode, see the note at
alpha 1423.)
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 March 2012@23:48:35.
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