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Headword: Ἐγκρατέστερος
Adler number: epsilon,122
Translated headword: stronger, on a stronger basis
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Thucydides: '[the Athenians] both built up and organized the empire on a stronger basis, and they themselves advanced to great power'.[1]
Greek Original:
Ἐγκρατέστερος. Θουκυδίδης: τήν τε ἀρχὴν ἐγκρατεστέραν ἐποίησαν καὶ κατεστήσαντο, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐπὶ μέγα δυνάμεως ἐχώρησαν.
Note:
[1] Thucydides 1.118.2 (web address 1), on the Pentekontaetia. The word ἐποίησαν (here 'built up') does not occur in the received texts of Thucydides.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: historiography; history
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 1 May 2003@18:43:40.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 2 May 2003@03:01:27.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 2 May 2003@18:27:46.
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