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Ἀπροθέτως · unintentionally (α 3690) · Suda

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α3686unpillaged
α3687without purchase-money
α3688tight, fast
α3689un-predeliberated
α3690unintentionally
α3691unforeseen
α3692not going out, unproceeding
α3693unexpectedly
α3694unassailable, unapproachable

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Ἀπροθέτως

unintentionally

Translated by William Hutton30 Dec 2001Vetting: high7 revisions

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1 note · 26 words

Translation

[Meaning] without intention.
Polybios [writes]: "so it is by no means appropriate to call things that happen unintentionally in warfare 'deeds', but rather 'accidents of circumstance'."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀπροθέτως· ἄνευ προθέσεως. Πολύβιος· τὰ μὲν οὖν ἀπροθέτως ἐν τοῖς πολεμικοῖς συμβαίνοντα πράξεις μὲν οὐδαμῶς ἁρμόζει λέγειν, περιπετείας δὲ συγκυρήσεις μᾶλλον.

Betacode

*)aproqe/tws: a)/neu proqe/sews. *polu/bios: ta\ me\n ou)=n a)proqe/tws e)n toi=s polemikoi=s sumbai/nonta pra/ceis me\n ou)damw=s a(rmo/zei le/gein, peripetei/as de\ sugkurh/seis ma=llon.

Notes (1)

The very rare headword adverb is presumably extracted from the quotation given. (The only other instance known occurs in the Christian writer Ephraem the Syrian.)
1Polybios 9.12.6.

Neighbouring entries

α3688Ἀπρίξtight, fast α3689Ἀπροβούλευτονun-predeliberated α3690Ἀπροθέτωςunintentionally α3691Ἀπροϊδήςunforeseen α3692Ἀπρόϊτοςnot going out, unproceeding

Revision history7 revisions · last 24 Apr 2021

24 Apr 2021fixed typo — William Hutton
13 Oct 2015tweak — Catharine Roth
30 Aug 2015expanded note; more keywords — David Whitehead
9 Apr 2012another note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
23 Aug 2002Revised — David Whitehead
1 Jan 2002added note — David Whitehead
30 Dec 2001cosmetics — Catharine Roth
30 Dec 2001Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀπροθέτως (Adler number alpha 3690), trans. William Hutton, 30 Dec 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3690

Translation by William Hutton for Suda On Line, revised by William Hutton, Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗