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Headword:
*parabo/lws
Adler number: pi,297
Translated headword: boldly, extraordinarily
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Polybius [writes]: "and afterwards [sc. Hannibal] boldly confronting so mighty a power."[1]
Greek Original:*parabo/lws: *polu/bios: meta\ de\ tau=ta pro\s h(li/khn dunastei/an parabo/lws a)ntofqalmh/sas.
Notes:
The unglossed headword, evidently extracted from the quotation given (which serves as context), is an adverb cognate with the adjective
para/bolos, -on,
thrown in alongside, deceitful, exposing oneself, venturesome; see
pi 296 (and
pi 298), and generally LSJ s.v.
[1]
Polybius 2.24.1 (where some editions remove 'and afterwards' from the text': web address 1). This prefaces a tabulation of the considerable Roman military resources faced by the forces of Hannibal (OCD(4) s.v. and
alpha 2452) in 225 BCE (Walbank, pp. 196-9).
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 28 September 2010@01:46:04.
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