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Headword:
*talanteu/ei
Adler number: tau,32
Translated headword: balances, oscillates
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative.[1] [Meaning he/she/it] weighs.[2]
"The [vicissitudes] of fate continued oscillating to and fro with victories and defeats."[3]
"And he was weighing the recompense according to the measure of the dangers: for to some a rank became the prize for daring, to another a horse."[4]
Greek Original:*talanteu/ei: ai)tiatikh=|. staqmi/zei. ta\ de\ th=s tu/xhs ni/kais kai\ h(/ttais th=|de kai\ th=|de talanteuo/mena die/meine. kai\ tw=| me/trw| tw=n kindu/nwn th\n a)moibh\n e)tala/nteuen: oi(=s me\n ga\r a)ci/a a)=qlon eu)tolmi/as e)gi/neto, a)/llw| i(/ppos.
Notes:
[1] Also in syntactic lexica.
[2] Likewise or very similarly in
Hesychius tau56, the
Synagoge (tau10), and
Photius tau19, where Theodoridis suggests that the headword is quoted from Gregory of Nazianzus,
Poems about himself (
Carmina de se ipso) 2.91 (PG 37.1006a).
[3]
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 9.13.2
[4] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.6.10-11.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 October 2013@01:06:20.
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