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Headword:
Sêmaiai
Adler number: sigma,315
Translated headword: standards
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] signs, busts.[1]
"Pilate brought the images of
Tiberius, which they call standards, into Judaea under wraps; but the [Jews] were dumbfounded, as their customs had been violated; for they did not consider it right for [something] representational to enter the city."[2]
Sêmaiai: signa, protomai. Pilatos eis tên Ioudaian tas Tiberiou eikonas, hai sêmaiai kalountai, kekalummenas eisênenken: hoi de exeplagêsan, hôs pepatêmenôn autois tôn nomimôn: ouden gar êxioun deikêlon en têi polei eisienai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at
Photius sigma170 Theodoridis); and cf.
sigma 316. The first gloss is the Latin word
signa.
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish War 2.169-170, here abridged (web address 1).
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 April 2008@16:42:28.
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