Ἐπηρμένοι
excited, stirred up
Translated by David Whitehead13 Nov 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning they who have become] eager, apt. Thucydides [writes]: "so the Greeks were stirred up because of the calamity that had befallen the Athenians, [reckoning] that they could not avoid the war".1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐπηρμένοι· πρόχειροι, εὐτρεπεῖς. Θουκυδίδης· οἱ οὖν Ἕλληνες ἐπηρμένοι ἦσαν διὰ τὴν τῶν Ἀθηναίων κακοπραγίαν, οὐκ ἀποστατέον τοῦ πολέμου εἴη.