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Friday, May 30, 2014

ANDREIA

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ἀνδρεία , , Ion. ἀνδραποδ-ηίη (Hdt.7.99), generally written ἀνδρία in the Mss., in agreement with the opinion of A.D.Adv.136.8, refuted by Orusap.EM461.53:—ἀνδρεία is required by the metre in Ar.Nu. 510, and
A.may always stand in the few poetic passages where it occurs (Simon.58, A.Th.52,S.El.983, E.Tr.674): ἀνδρία is required in E. HF475 μέγα φρονῶν ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρίᾳ(s.v.l., εὐανδρίᾳ Elmsley): ἀνδρεία is also confirmed by the Ion. form ἀνδρηίη:
 
English equivalent:
 
manliness
manly spirit, 
 
 
—in plural:
 
brave deeds, Platone, Lg.922a;
 
In bad sense, hardihood, insolence, D. Chr.12.13.
=  τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἡλικία, Antipho.Soph.67a.
 
membrum virile, Artem.1.45.
 
skill, LXX Ec.4.4.

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