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Headword:
Embainontes
Adler number: epsilon,942
Translated headword: stepping on
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they] stepping against.[1] "But the Arabs greatly surpass the others in courage: for using arrows as long as a man is tall, stepping on the string with their foot instead of hands they draw the bow into a circle."[2]
Greek Original:Embainontes: epibainontes. hoi de Arabioi aretêi polu tôn allôn diapherousin: hoi belesin andromêkesi chrômenoi, anti tôn cheirôn tôi podi embainontes eis tên neuran kuklousi to toxon.
Notes:
[1] The headword is present participle, masculine nominative plural, of
e)mbai/nw, presumably extracted from the quotation given. See also
epsilon 940,
epsilon 941,
epsilon 1211.
[2] Quotation (copied from here to
alpha 3729) unidentifiable.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2007@23:57:51.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 February 2007@04:30:28.
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 14 March 2011@08:18:43.
David Whitehead on 15 August 2012@10:06:48.
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