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Headword: *tu=fos
Adler number: tau,1221
Translated headword: delusion
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] false pretense, madness.[1]
Such a person "is ignorant and deluded".[2]
Greek Original:
*tu=fos: a)lazonei/a, mani/a. o( de\ toiou=tos a)gnoei= kai\ tetu/fwtai.
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and in a scholion (215.14 Rabe) on Lucian, Abdicatus 30 (where the participle u(potufo/mena occurs). On the first of the glosses, a)lazonei/a, see alpha 1056.
[2] Polybius 3.81.1 (web address 2), using the related verb (of anyone who fails to grasp the paramount necessity for a general to know his opponent's principles and character).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: Patrick Hogan on 7 January 2013@13:16:26.
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Catharine Roth (tweaks and cosmetics, cross-reference, keywords, status) on 8 January 2013@01:37:35.
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