Ἀλεξόμενον
warding off, resisting
Translated by Jennifer Benedict8 May 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[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 to the one striking the first blow".1
Also [sc. attested is the accusative plural]a)lecome/nous in Herodotus, meaning [them] resisting or aiding. "A third of the Massagetae slaughtered the survivors of Cyrus' army, although they were resisting".2
Also [sc. attested is the aorist middle infinitive]a)le/casqai , [meaning] to prevent, to hinder.
"The horses were not useful to him in fleeing with them or in preventing his enemies bearing down upon him."3
And elsewhere: "Cyrus used to pray that he would live long enough to be victorious and repay those who had done him [both] good and ill".4
"[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 to the one striking the first blow".1
Also [sc. attested is the accusative plural]
Also [sc. attested is the aorist middle infinitive]
"The horses were not useful to him in fleeing with them or in preventing his enemies bearing down upon him."3
And elsewhere: "Cyrus used to pray that he would live long enough to be victorious and repay those who had done him [both] good and ill".4