Ἀλέξασθαι
to ward off
Translated by Jennifer Benedict3 May 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀλέξασθαι· ἐπαμύνειν. Ξενοφῶν· πολὺ γὰρ διέφερεν ἐκ χώρας ὁρμωμένους ἀλέξασθαι ἢ προπορευομένους ἐπιοῦσι τοῖς πολεμίοις μάχεσθαι.
Betacode
*)ale/casqai: e)pamu/nein. *cenofw=n: polu\ ga\r die/feren e)k xw/ras o(rmwme/nous a)le/casqai h)\ proporeuome/nous e)piou=si toi=s polemi/ois ma/xesqai.
Notes (2)
- The headword is aorist middle infinitive of↩
a)le/cw . It might be extracted from the quotation given, or else (and more probably?) quoted from Homer, Iliad 13.475; cf. the scholia there.
cf. alpha 1131, alpha 1132, alpha 1133, alpha 1134, alpha 1135, alpha 1136, alpha 1139, alpha 1140.- 1Similar entry in Hesychius (alpha2871). ↩
- 2Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.33 (with minor differences).
Linked from7 entries
- α1131Ἀλέξαιto ward off[Meaning] to aid/help. But a)lle/cai ["to pick up"] [means] to gather.
- α1132Ἀλέξεινto avert[Meaning] to turn aside.
- α1133Ἀλεξήσονταfor warding off[Meaning] for aiding.
- α1134Ἀλεξητῆραwarder-off[Meaning a] helper.
- α1136Ἀλεξιβέλεμνονdart-averting[Meaning] one which repels missiles. In the Epigrams: "and the dart-averting tunic from the chest".
- α1137Ἀλεξίκακονfor warding off evil[Meaning] remedial/remedy, antidote. Purifying and taking care of evil. Also [sc. attested is the vocative] a)leci/kake, that is evil-averter, one keeping terrible things away.
- α1140Ἀλεξόμενονwarding off, resisting[Meaning him who is] defending. "[That] he who has begun evilly means to do evil - just as in cases of private wrongs the law-makers and the judges relate all the harm that has occurred not to the one warding it off but…
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