Ῥᾳδιέστερον
easier
Translated by David Whitehead30 Oct 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Polybius [writes]: "but the arrival of Hasdrubal in Italy was far easier and quicker a thing."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥᾳδιέστερον· Πολύβιος· ἀλλὰ πολὺ ῥᾳδιεστέραν καὶ συντομωτέραν συνέβη γενέσθαι τὴν Ἀσδρούβου παρουσίαν ἐς Ἰταλίαν.
Betacode
*(ra|die/steron: *polu/bios: a)lla\ polu\ r(a|dieste/ran kai\ suntomwte/ran sune/bh gene/sqai th\n *)asdrou/bou parousi/an e)s *)itali/an.
Notes (1)
- The headword as transmitted is
r(a|die/steron (whereas the quotation has femininer(a|dieste/ran ); seemingly, then, the headword has been extracted from somewhere else.
The Attic comparative ofr(a/|dios isr(a/|wn . See e.g. rho 40. - 1Polybius 11.1.1, on events of 207 BCE; cf. Livy 27.39.6. (Than what this was "easier and quicker" is left unstated: the Loeb translator, W.R.Paton, understands "than that of Hannibal had been"; Walbank in his commentary ad loc. prefers the vaguer "than expected".) ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 1 Jan 2022
- cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- another note; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead