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Headword:
*prou)rgiai/teron
Adler number: pi,2911
Translated headword: more serviceable, rather serviceable
Vetting Status: high
Translation: More/rather necessary.[1] That [which is] preferable for the task [
pro\ tou= e)/rgou][2] [is] more/rather necessary; for
prou=rgon is as if to say
pro/ergon.
Polybius [writes]: "that he considered nothing in life more important than hunting."[3]
They also say
pro\ e)/rgou [i.e. without crasis]. Arrian [writes]: "the general considered it especially useful to leave what was at their rear friendly to himself and to the army."[4]
"But he ventured to go self-summoned, judging the difficulty resulting from chance to be more important than the missives from an autocrat."[5]
*prou)rgiai/teron: a)nagkaio/teron. to\ pro\ tou= e)/rgou ai(retw/teron a)nagkaio/teron: to\ ga\r prou=rgo/n e)stin oi(=on pro/ergon. *polu/bios: ou)de\n prou)rgiai/teron poioume/nou kata\ to\n bi/on tou= kunhgetei=n. le/getai de\ kai\ pro\ e)/rgou. *)arriano/s: ma/lista de\ fi/lia ta\ kata\ nw/tou e(autw=| te kai\ th=| stratia=| katalipei=n pro\ e)/rgou e)ti/qeto o( strathgo/s. o( de\ au)toke/leustos e)to/lma i)e/nai, tw=n pro\s au)tokra/toros e)phggelme/nwn prou)rgiaite/ran th\n a)po\ th=s tu/xhs stenoxwri/an pepoihme/nos.
Notes:
[1] Comparative formed from
prou)/rgou: cf.
Hesychius, also a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 20 (where the neuter plural occurs). See also
pi 2909,
pi 2910,
pi 2912,
pi 2672.
[2] cf.
Photius and the
Etymologicum Magnum.
[3]
Polybius 8.25.6, quoted already at
delta 635.
[4] From Arrian's
Parthica or
From the Death of Alexander: Roos/Wirth fr. 25. See already
pi 2391.
[5] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.23.7. See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II pp.XCIV-XCV.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2011@01:26:47.
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