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Headword: Ἐκδέχῃ
Adler number: epsilon,389
Translated headword: you take
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
You understand, you interpret.[1] Polybius [writes]: "not rightly, general, do you take my words".[2]
Also 'I accept/take': with accusative.
Greek Original:
Ἐκδέχῃ: νοεῖς, ὑπολαμβάνεις. Πολύβιος: οὐκ ὀρθῶς, ὦ στρατηγέ, τοὺς ἡμετέρους ἐκδέχῃ λόγους. καὶ Ἐκδέχομαι: αἰτιατικῇ.
Notes:
cf. epsilon 386, epsilon 387, epsilon 388.
[1] Evidently from the quotation which follows.
[2] Polybius 10.18.12 (old woman to Scipio Africanus, after his capture of New Carthage in 209 BCE).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 April 2007@03:40:12.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 25 April 2007@10:40:20.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 26 April 2007@03:06:42.
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