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Headword:
*(roph/
Adler number: rho,231
Translated headword: balance
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] inclination.[1]
"Thinking that the hegemony of his native city/land lay in the balance, he accomplished a deed worthy of memory."[2]
Greek Original:*(roph/: kli/sis. o( de\ nomi/sas e)pi\ r(oph=s kei=sqai th\n th=s patri/dos h(gemoni/an e)petele/sato pra=cin mnh/mhs a)ci/an.
Notes:
For this headword see already
rho 230.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius rho159 Theodoridis.
[2] The individual is unidentifiable, but the quotation, it may be suggested, is a fragment of
Diodorus Siculus. For
nomi/sas e)pi\ r(oph=s kei=sqai th\n th=s patri/dos h(gemoni/an, cf. D.S. 20.34.2 on
Agathocles (
o(rw=n th\n swthri/an e)pi\ r(oph=s keime/nhn); for
e)petele/sato pra=cin mnh/mhs a)ci/an, cf. (e.g.) D.S. 15.64.3 on Ischola(o)s the Spartan (
e)petele/sato pra=cin h(rwikh\n kai\ mnh/mhs a)ci/an).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 September 2010@08:13:24.
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