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Headword: Σύμβασις
Adler number: sigma,1359
Translated headword: concord, agreement
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Friendship, success, reconciliation.[1]
A maxim: "but an agreement of friends coming about in the same manner [is] more secure than those which have been accepted under duress."[2]
Greek Original:
Σύμβασις: φιλία, συντυχία, καταλλαγή. γνώμη: σύμβασις δὲ φίλων κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν γινομένη τρόπον τῶν ὑπ' ἀνάγκης συγχωρηθέντων βεβαιοτέρα.
Notes:
cf. generally sigma 1358, sigma 1361, sigma 1362, sigma 1363, sigma 1365.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2] This passage, not identified by Adler, is revealed by a TLG search to come from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.48.4 (which reads ἑκούσιον "voluntary" instead of the Suda's αὐτὸν "same"). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXIX.
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 February 2011@01:30:39.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (x-refs) on 23 February 2011@03:25:15.
David Whitehead (typo) on 22 August 2011@08:23:02.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 10 October 2011@09:46:11.

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