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Headword:
*triku/listos
Adler number: tau,986
Translated headword: thrice-rolled
Vetting Status: high
Translation: 'If you do not come, I want, thrice-rolled, to be thrust wherever you summon me'.
Greek Original:*triku/listos: e)a\n mh\ a)fi/khsqe, bou/lomai triku/listos w)qei=sqai, o(/pou a)\n u(mei=s parakalh=te.
Notes:
An extract (fr.125 Usener) from one of the letters of
Epicurus (
epsilon 2404); cf.
Diogenes Laertius 10.5.
The headword is otherwise unattested. LSJ s.v. note that its literal meaning is 'thrice-rolled' (cf.
kappa 2663,
kappa 2664), and translate it in the present context as 'easily influenced'. Compare R.D. Hicks in the Loeb D.L.: '... to spin thrice on my own axis and be propelled etc.'
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 February 2004@11:26:22.
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