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Headword:
*dio/ptra
Adler number: delta,1195
Translated headword: dioptra
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A mechanical implement,[1] with which the geometers used to assess with precision the measure of battlements from a distance.
The Pisidian [writes]: "you see these things from far away with your dioptra".[2]
Greek Original:*dio/ptra: mhxaniko\n texnou/rghma, di' ou(= oi( gewme/trai a)phkri/boun th\n tw=n e)pa/lcewn e)k diasth/matos a)name/trhsin. *pisi/dhs: tau=ta pro\ pollou= th=| dio/ptra| sou ble/peis.
Notes:
Likewise in ps.-
Zonaras.
[1] See already under
delta 1192; LSJ entry at web address 1.
[2] George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias 3 fr. 8 Tartaglia. The source text of the fragment is unknown. Quercius (J.M. Querci) suggests in his note to the fragment that the poet appears to be addressing Heraclius (cf. Migne, PG 92.1741 n. 71). On Heraclius see
eta 465 generally.
M.J.T. Lewis, Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome, Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001
J.P. Migne, ed., Patrologia graeca, vol. 92, (Paris, 1860)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
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Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 11 January 2005@14:50:29.
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