Ἀπεχρήσατο
attacked
Translated by Jennifer Benedict9 Aug 2001Vetting: high12 revisions
Translation
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] killed.1 Also [sc. attested is the plural] a)pexrh/santo ["they attacked"], they killed. In Lemnian Women Aristophanes [writes]: "they attacked the men who begot their children."2
Buta)pe/xrhse [means he/she/it] gave an oracle. "And thrice, not just once, [he?] gave him the oracle, to tell the Tyrians to revolt against those close to Darius."3
"Then [he?] did not give him the oracle that he would overpower his enemies, but even pillaged the temple of Apollo."4 And elsewhere: "so that would have been sufficient to destroy him tn the worst way of [all] men."5
Buta)pe/xrhse also means was sufficient [for].6
But
"Then [he?] did not give him the oracle that he would overpower his enemies, but even pillaged the temple of Apollo."4 And elsewhere: "so that would have been sufficient to destroy him tn the worst way of [all] men."5
But