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Headword:
Ἐγχώριον
Adler number: epsilon,185
Translated headword: local
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Domestic.[1]
"For locals know best not only the directions of the
winds, according to the proverb, but also the customs of the local people."[2]
Ἐγχώριον: οἰκεῖον. ἐγχώριοι γὰρ οὐ μόνον τὰς τῶν ἀνέμων στάσεις κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ τῶν ἐγχωρίων ἀνθρώπων ἤθη κάλλιστα γινώσκουσιν.
Notes:
[1] Masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of the adjective
ἐγχώριος ; similarly glossed in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere.
[2]
Polybius 9.25.3, quoted already at
alpha 2263.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 June 2005@00:22:42.
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