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Headword: Παλάμη
Adler number: pi,41
Translated headword: palm, scheme
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Skill.[1]
Herodotus [writes]: "[Themistocles] told them [= the generals] that he thought he had a scheme, by which he hoped to subvert the best of the King's allies."[2]
So παλάμῃ ["with a palm"] [means] with authority.[3]
Greek Original:
Παλάμη: τέχνη. Ἡρόδοτος: ἔλεγέ σφιν ὡς δοκέοι ἔχειν παλάμην, τῇ ἐλπίζοι τῶν βασιλέως συμμάχων ἀποστήσειν τοὺς ἀρίστους. Παλάμῃ οὖν τῇ ἀρχῇ.
Notes:
[1] cf. pi 39, pi 48 (and epsilon 1939).
[2] Herodotus 8.19.1: web address 1.
[3] From pi 52. This addendum (on the dative case of the headword, presumably quoted from somewhere) is omitted in mss. AF.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 August 2010@21:51:53.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 August 2010@03:02:27.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 26 August 2011@05:17:23.
Catharine Roth (added link) on 28 August 2011@01:53:13.
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