Μάλκιον

benumbing

Translated by David Whitehead7 May 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 18 words

[Meaning something] weak, very cold.¹
"By drinking a drug both weak and benumbing, Mithridates slowly revealed his strength."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μάλκιον· ἀσθενές, ψυχρότατον. ὁ δὲ Μιθριδάτης πιὼν φάρμακον ἀσθενές τε καὶ μάλκιον βραδέως τὴν ἰσχὺν ἀπεδείκνυτο.

Betacode

*ma/lkion: a)sqene/s, yuxro/taton. o( de\ *miqrida/ths piw\n fa/rmakon a)sqene/s te kai\ ma/lkion brade/ws th\n i)sxu\n a)pedei/knuto.

1Neuter singular of this adjective, presumably extracted from the quotation given; and cf. mu 114 (and mu 112). ↩
2Quotation unidentifiable, but for Mithridates/Mithradates cf. generally mu 1044; and for this celebrated feat of his cf. under omega 280, phi 858. ↩

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