Δυσείκαστον

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Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo22 Mar 2005Vetting: high3 revisions

4 words

[Meaning something] unsuitably represented.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δυσείκαστον· ἀπρεπῶς εἰκασθέν.

Betacode

*dusei/kaston: a)prepw=s ei)kasqe/n.

The headword is neuter nominative/accusative singular, evidently quoted from somewhere; perhaps Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Thucydides 29, applying this term to Thucydides' phrase kai\ ta\ e)fusteri/zonta/ pou (Thuc. 3.82.3).
The adjective features prominently in DH's critical vocabulary, esp. where Thucydides is concerned: see also On Thucydides 40 (on Thuc. 5.111), Lysias 4 (on Thucydides and Demosthenes in general terms), Second Letter to Ammaeus 3 (on Thucydides' choice of vocabulary).