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Headword:
*pro\s
qumou=
au)toi=s
e)ge/neto
Adler number: pi,2709
Translated headword: it happened to their liking
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning [it was] pleasing and pleasant.
And elsewhere: "but the war was not happening to their liking."[1]
Greek Original:*pro\s qumou= au)toi=s e)ge/neto: a)nti\ tou= a)resto\n kai\ qumh=res. kai\ au)=qis: toi=s de\ ou) pro\s qumou= o( po/lemos e)gi/gneto.
Notes:
For the idiom, see already
pi 2708. The present headword phrase must be quoted from somewhere (other than the quotation given, which is very similar but not, as transmitted, exactly the same).
[1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 March 2010@06:54:59.
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