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Headword:
Alexasthai
Adler number: alpha,1130
Translated headword: to ward off
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to defend.[1]
Xenophon [writes]: "for there was a great difference between starting from [friendly] territory to ward off the enemy and fighting while on the march with the enemy attacking".[2]
Greek Original:Alexasthai: epamunein. Xenophôn: polu gar diepheren ek chôras hormômenous alexasthai ê proporeuomenous epiousi tois polemiois machesthai.
Notes:
The headword is aorist middle infinitive of
a)le/cw. It might be extracted from the quotation given, or else (and more probably?) quoted from
Homer, Iliad 13.475; cf. the
scholia there.
cf.
alpha 1131,
alpha 1132,
alpha 1133,
alpha 1134,
alpha 1135,
alpha 1136,
alpha 1139,
alpha 1140.
[1] Similar entry in
Hesychius (alpha2871).
[2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 3.4.33 (with minor differences).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 May 2000@00:52:09.
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