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Headword: Ἄδεια
Adler number: alpha,448
Translated headword: impunity
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Lack of fear.[1]
"They were ordering him to say with impunity what he might need; he was acknowledging the favour of the impunity, but having exalted his own suffering on high he was blaming the Romans [sc. for it]."[2]
Greek Original:
Ἄδεια: ἡ ἀφοβία. ἐκέλευον αὐτὸν λέγειν ὅ τι χρῄζοι μετ' ἀδείας: ὁ δὲ τῆς μὲν ἀδείας χάριν ὡμολόγει, τὸ δὲ ἑαυτοῦ πάθος ἐπὶ μέγα ἐξάρας Ῥωμαίοις ἐμέμφετο.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; and see already alpha 447.
[2] Perhaps from Arrian, Parthica: see p.36 Roos.
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 March 2001@10:43:34.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note and keyword) on 20 March 2001@03:22:12.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword) on 30 April 2002@06:47:14.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 14 August 2009@09:05:24.
David Whitehead on 10 January 2012@06:41:59.
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