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Headword: Exelixantes
Adler number: epsilon,1617
Translated headword: countermarching
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"Then you, countermarching the phalanxes, turn quickly and get in the face of those pursuing."[1] And elsewhere: "[...] and then some armored charges happened and counter-charges and flanking manoeuvres."[2]
Greek Original:
Exelixantes: eita humeis tas phalangas exelixantes, anchistrophoi genomenoi antimetôpoi ginesthe tois diôkousin. kai authis: kaita enoplioi diadromai tines eginonto kai exelixeis kai periodoi.
Notes:
This entry -- absent (Adler reports) from mss FV -- seems to be an attempt to collect quotations that illustrate the previous entry on "countermarches" (epsilon 1616). The present headword is aorist active participle, masculine nominative plural, of e)celi/ssw, presumably extracted from the first of the quotations given follow.
[1] Quotation (drawn from alpha 410) unidentifiable. The participle e)celicantes has been translated here as "countermarching" since it seems to fit the context and since the creator of this entry seems to associate this quotation with the "countermarches" (e)celigmoi/) of epsilon 1616 (see previous note). The verb e)celi/ssw, however, can refer to other military manoeuvres. For an alternative translation see alpha 410.
[2] An excerpt from a longer quotation (also unidentifiable) at delta 546, where it is possible that the manoeuvres being described are cavalry manoeuvres. Hence the word e)celi/cis, though clearly related to the words translated above as "countermarching" (e)celi/cantes) and in epsilon 1616 as "countermarch" (e)celigmo/s) is here translated as "counter-charge". For an alternative translation see delta 546.
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; military affairs; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 1 March 2007@03:31:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 1 March 2007@03:44:37.
William Hutton (typos) on 2 March 2007@03:33:34.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 12 September 2012@05:32:21.
David Whitehead (my typo) on 15 January 2016@03:18:09.

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