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Headword: Στρατηγιᾶν
Adler number: sigma,1169
Translated headword: to wish to be a general
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
To desire the office of general.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the participle] στρατηγιῶντα ["wishing to be a general"]: striving for a generalship. Josephus [writes]: "want of resources held back the man [John, son of Levi], who was wishing to be general and aiming at greater things."[2]
Greek Original:
Στρατηγιᾶν: ἐπιθυμεῖν τῆς στρατηγίδος. καὶ Στρατηγιῶντα, στρατηγίας ὀρεγόμενον. Ἰώσηπος: ἤδη δ' αὐτὸν στρατηγιῶντα καὶ μειζόνων ἐφιέμενον ἔνδεια χρημάτων κατεῖχε.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2] Josephus, Jewish Wars 2.590.
Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 16 November 1998@23:54:10.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added headword and keywords; cosmetics) on 22 May 2001@09:18:06.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 17 January 2004@01:13:16.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 18 January 2004@04:16:05.
David Whitehead (another note; another keyword; cosmetics) on 10 May 2011@07:49:10.
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