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Headword:
Ὀθνεῖος
Adler number: omicron,84
Translated headword: strange, foreign
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Not he who has come out of a different [country], as some have interpreted, [i.e.] of another nation, but he who is from the same city and otherwise friendly, but not belonging to the same family.[1]
"They were fighting a civil war worse than the foreign [war]."[2]
"For telling lies is something foreign and alien to a wise man".[3]
"He was the first to give Romans experience of foreign wars."[4]
"They are carrying a war long and foreign."[5]
Greek Original:Ὀθνεῖος: οὐχ ὁ ἐκ τῆς ἀλλοδαπῆς ἀφιγμένος, ὥς τινες ἀπέδοσαν, ἀλλοεθνής, ἀλλ' ὁ ἀπὸ πόλεως τῆς αὐτῆς ὢν καὶ ἄλλως ἐπιτήδειός πως, οὐ μέντοι κατὰ γένος προσήκων. ἐπολέμουν ἔμφυλον πόλεμον κακίονα τοῦ ὀθνείου. ὀθνεῖον γάρ τι καὶ ἔκφυλον ψεύδεσθαι σοφῷ ἀνδρί. πρῶτος ὀθνείων κατέστησεν εἰς πείραν πολέμων Ῥωμαίους. πόλεμον μακρὸν καὶ ὀθνεῖον ἐκφέρουσιν.
Notes:
cf. already
omicron 83.
[1] According to Adler, [G.] Wentzel attributed this gloss to a rhetorical source.
[2] Ultimate source unknown. (According to Adler, this and the remaining quotations here were transmitted through the excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus.)
[3]
Menander Protector fr. 19.1 Blockley, where the true reading is actually 'to a Turkish man'; cf. generally
epsilon 719.
[4] Ultimate source unknown.
[5] Ultimate source unknown.
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; law; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 November 2009@00:59:10.
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