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Headword:
Dioptêres
Adler number: delta,1193
Translated headword: scouts
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the watchers, the advanced guards.[1] "Due to the rain pouring down, as the Avars contrived, and to the air being foggy and dark, the scouts were not able to distinguish the enemy coming to assault" [2].
Greek Original:Dioptêres: hoi epitêrêtai, hoi prophulakes. katacheomenou tou ex epitechnêseôs ombrou tôn Abarôn kai sunnephous ontos tou aeros kai eseti skotôdous ouch hoioi te egenonto hoi dioptêres diagnônai epiontas tous dusmeneis.
Notes:
[1] cf.
delta 1992, and see also e.g.
Aeschylus,
Seven against Thebes 36 (
katopth=ras stratou=) with the
scholia there.
[2] This unattributed historiographical quotation apparently stems from
Menander the Guardsman (a.k.a.
Menander Protector). Blockley registers it as fr. 35.2, while expressing (287 with n.329) some uncertainty about the attribution.
Reference:
R.C. Blockley, The history of Menander the Guardsman: introductory essay, text, translation and historiographical notes, Liverpool, Cairns, 1985
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 11 January 2005@20:07:09.
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