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Headword:
Ex
homologou
Adler number: epsilon,1794
Translated headword: by agreement
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning by] open [means]. "Because of the battles by agreement and in close combat many were falling(?) from one another."[1] And elsewhere: "he was in no position at all to enter into an all-embracing judgment by agreement"[2] Meaning face-to-face.
Greek Original:Ex homologou: prophanous. dia tas ex homologou kai sustadên machas polloi epipton ex amphoterôn. kai authis: eis holoscherê de krisin ex homologou katabainein ouch hoios t' ên. kata prosôpon.
Notes:
[1]
Polybius fr. 144 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (533) that Schweighäuser attributed this fragment to
Polybius. Toup linked (ibid.) part of this fragment (
ta\s e)c o(molo/gou kai\ susta/dhn ma/xas,
the battles by agreement and in close combat) with
Polybius 11.32.7 (web address 1).
[2]
Polybius 3.90.5 (on Q. Fabius
Maximus in relation to Hannibal in 217 BCE).
Reference:
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 July 2007@04:04:14.
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