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Headword: *prou)/rgou
Adler number: pi,2912
Translated headword: serviceable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
For a work [pro\ e)/rgou], useful, more. Isocrates says: "so that something serviceable may come about." Meaning [something] more.[1]
"I have thought it serviceable, avoiding the immoderation both of these men and of those, to adopt whatever was befitting to the old stories."[2]
Greek Original:
*prou)/rgou: pro\ e)/rgou, sumfe/ron, ple/on. *)isokra/ths fhsi/n: i(/na prou)/rgou ti ge/nhtai. a)nti\ tou= ple/on. prou)/rgou neno/mika, kai\ tou/twn ka)kei/nwn th\n a)metri/an fugw/n, o(/sa prosh=ke tai=s palaiai=s i(stori/ais, tau=ta prosarmo/sai.
Notes:
cf. pi 2909, pi 2910, pi 2911.
[1] Likewise in the Synagoge and Photius pi1415 Theodoridis; cf. scholia on Plato, Theaetetus 197A, [Plato], Alcibiades 2 149E, and Hesychius pi4042. The quotation is from Isocrates 4.19.
[2] Adler tentatively attributed this quotation to Damascius, Life of Isidore; now Zintzen fr. 398.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 February 2011@01:23:24.
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