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Headword:
Hientes
Adler number: iota,152
Translated headword: throwing, emitting
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they] releasing.[1]
Appian says about the Kelts: "[those] whom he exhibited naked to the Romans. These are the men who send out the great shout against you in battles and beat their weapons and raise long swords and hair: seeing their cowardice and their soft and weak body you go eagerly to the task."[2]
Greek Original:Hientes: aphientes. Appianos peri tôn Keltôn phêsin: hous gumnous epedeiknue Rhômaiois. houtoi eisin hoi tên boên tên bareian hientes humin en tais machais kai ta hopla patagountes kai xiphê makra kai komas aiôrountes, hôn to atolmon horôntes kai to sôma malakon kai atonon prosiete tôi ergôi.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; see the references at
Photius iota41 Theodoridis. The headword -- present active participle of
i(/hmi (cf.
iota 215,
iota 216), masculine nominative plural -- is taken to be quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 2.774; see the
scholia there.
[2] Appian,
Celtica 8. (The "he" is unidentifiable.)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 May 2006@12:59:43.
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