Ἐξακριβωθέντες

accurately-described

Translated by David Whitehead27 May 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 28 words

Translation

[Meaning they who were] looked-into.1 Diodorus [writes]: "men accurately-described by the king as to both size and height of their bodies and sharpness and confidence of their resolve".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐξακριβωθέντες· ἐρευνηθέντες. Διόδωρος· ἄνδρες ἐξακριβωθέντες ὑπὸ βασιλέως εἰς μέγεθός τε καὶ ὕψος σωμάτων καὶ τόλμης ὀξύτητα καὶ ἀγερωχίαν.

Betacode
*)ecakribwqe/ntes: e)reunhqe/ntes. *dio/dwros: a)/ndres e)cakribwqe/ntes u(po\ basile/ws ei)s me/geqo/s te kai\ u(/yos swma/twn kai\ to/lmhs o)cu/thta kai\ a)gerwxi/an. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1Aorist passive participle, masculine nominative plural, of e)cakribo/w (cf. under kappa 979, and generally alpha 981, alpha 982); presumably extracted from the quotation given. ↩
  2. 2Diodorus Siculus fr.7 Walton (31 Dindorf). ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 9 Sep 2012
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. x-refs — David Whitehead
  3. set status — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“accurately-described.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 27 May 2007. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1521>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/epsilon/1521>.

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

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