Ἄρθμια

amicable relations

Translated by Jennifer Benedict29 Jul 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

3 notes · 36 words

Translation

[Meaning] friendly relations.1
Herodotus [writes]: "since the Athenians are not amicable towards us, but the barbarians [are our] allies."2
Also [sc. attested is the related participle] a)rqmh/santes ["they having become amicable"], [meaning they] having become friends.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄρθμια· φίλια. Ἡρόδοτος· Ἀθηναίων μὴ ἐόντων ἡμῖν ἀρθμίων, τῷ δὲ βαρβάρῳ συμμάχων. καὶ Ἀρθμήσαντες, φίλοι γενόμενοι.

Betacode
*)/arqmia: fi/lia. *(hro/dotos: *)aqhnai/wn mh\ e)o/ntwn h(mi=n a)rqmi/wn, tw=| de\ barba/rw| summa/xwn. kai\ *)arqmh/santes, fi/loi geno/menoi.  

Notes (3)

  1. 1From a gloss on Herodotus 6.83.2, where the headword, neuter plural of this adjective, occurs (web address 1 below). ↩
  2. 2Herodotus 9.9.2 (web address 2). ↩
  3. 3Evidently quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists 7.6.5. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 10 Dec 2014
  1. tweaked translation and links — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. coding — Catharine Roth
  4. augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

“amicable relations.” Suda On Line. Tr. Jennifer Benedict. 29 July 2001. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3943>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/alpha/3943>.

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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