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Headword:
*para/stasis
Adler number: pi,442
Translated headword: courageous desperation, desperate courage
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] impulse, zeal.[1]
"And a courageous desperation of spirit for freedom came over the multitudes. For this reason they began to complain loudly to one another of their sufferings."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the variant phrase] para/sthma yuxh=s: "the Romans, through strength of body and courageous desperation of spirit,[3] conquered almost the whole inhabited world."[4]
Greek Original:*para/stasis: o(rmh/, proqumi/a. kai\ para/stasis yuxh=s pro\s e)leuqeri/an e)ne/pese toi=s plh/qesi. dio\ pro\s a)llh/lous e)deinopa/qoun. kai\ *para/sthma yuxh=s: oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi di' a)lkh\n sw/matos kai\ para/sthma yuxh=s o)li/gou dei=n th=s oi)koume/nhs e)kra/thsan.
Notes:
The headword is a feminine noun in the nominative singular; see
pi 441 and
pi 443 for other senses of it, and generally LSJ s.v. II.7.c.
[1] The glossing nouns are feminine in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see LSJ s.vv. and cf.
omicron 601,
pi 444 (end),
epsilon 452 (gloss), and
mu 623 (gloss).
[2]
Diodorus Siculus 33. [not Adler's '23'] 16.2 (via
Excerpta Constantiniana EL 406.7-10), on the response of the people of Numantia and Termessus in the late 140s BCE to the peace-terms offered them by Rome; cf.
epsilon 3393,
epsilon 217, and
eta 194 (gloss).
[3] In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that ms A omitted this part of the quotation.
[4]
Josephus,
Jewish War 2.580 (web address 1).
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Translated by: Ronald Allen on 2 October 2010@00:41:47.
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