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Headword:
Episalos
Adler number: epsilon,2557
Translated headword: sea-tossed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] unstable, easily-moved.[1]
"And as their hopes of safety had become sea-tossed, they withdrew from the town."[2]
Greek Original:Episalos: abebaios, eumetaptôtos. episalôn te tôn tês sôtêrias elpidôn genomenôn autois, exechôroun tou asteos.
Notes:
The headword adjective is in the masculine nominative singular; this is presumably generated by the genitive plural in the quotation given.
[1] Likewise (twice over) in ps.-
Zonaras.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 6.5.5.
Keywords: definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 November 2007@01:25:14.
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