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Headword:
Kêrukeion
Adler number: kappa,1544
Translated headword: herald's wand
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "It was a signal of friendship among the barbarians, to meet with those holding wreaths and branches, like the herald's wand among the Greeks"[1] --- making it clear through these things that they are guests, who want neither to commit nor suffer anything adverse.
Greek Original:Kêrukeion: sunthêma philias ên tois barbarois, sunantan stephanous echontas kai thallous, hôsper to kêrukeion tois Hellêsi, diasaphountes, hoti pareisi dia tauta boulomenoi mête poiêsai mête pathein ti duscheres mêden.
Notes:
See also
kappa 1545,
kappa 1546.
[1] Slightly paraphrasing
Polybius 3.52.4: natives of the Alps trying to trick Hannibal. In our accepted text
e)/xontes is in the nominative: the barbarians doing the meeting are also holding the peace tokens. See also at
sigma 1590.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 18 November 2008@01:40:45.
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