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Headword:
*shmai=ai
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]
*shmai=ai: si/gna, protomai/. *pila/tos ei)s th\n *)ioudai/an ta\s *tiberi/ou ei)ko/nas, ai(\ shmai=ai kalou=ntai, kekalumme/nas ei)sh/negken: oi( de\ e)cepla/ghsan, w(s pepathme/nwn au)toi=s tw=n nomi/mwn: ou)de\n ga\r h)ci/oun dei/khlon e)n th=| po/lei ei)sie/nai.
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).
Web address 1
Keywords: art history; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; law; military affairs; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 April 2008@16:42:28.
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