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Headword: *(uph=rcan
Adler number: upsilon,433
Translated headword: they began
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] they initiated first. "For these men first began [the] injustice." Herodotus [sc. writes this].[1]
And Aelian [writes]: "he began to be sensible".[2]
Greek Original:
*(uph=rcan: prokath/rcanto. ou(=toi ga\r prw=ton u(ph=rcan a)diki/hs. *(hro/dotos. kai\ *ai)liano/s: o( de\ u(ph/rcato swfronei=n.
Notes:
cf. generally upsilon 161.
[1] Herodotus 4.1.1 (on the Scythians).
[2] Adler comments that this phrase does not occur amongst the fragments of Aelian. It has, though, been identified as a possible reading in his Varia Historia (2.12, on the young Themistocles, theta 124): either aorist u(ph/rcato or imperfect u(pe/xeto is the verb there.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 September 2010@08:34:46.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 30 September 2010@09:56:05.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 30 September 2010@10:08:34.
David Whitehead on 25 November 2013@06:32:02.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 1 November 2014@00:09:29.

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