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Headword:
Apeda
Adler number: alpha,2972
Translated headword: level grounds
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] flat grounds.[1]
Clidemus [writes]: "and they began to level the acropolis and build round [it] the nine-gated Pelasgikon."[2]
Greek Original:Apeda: ta isopeda. Kleidêmos: kai êpedizon tên akropolin, perieballon de enneapulon to Pelasgikon.
Notes:
The headword is neuter plural; the quotation uses a verb related to it. Again, rearranged, at
eta 421.
[1] cf.
alpha 2979.
[2]
Clidemus FGrH 323 F16. On the ancient Athenian acropolis and the associated Pelasgikon (or Pelargikon) wall, see R.E. Wycherley,
The Stones of Athens (Princeton 1978) 7-9.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 May 2001@13:30:27.
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