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Headword:
Knephas
Adler number: kappa,1859
Translated headword: dusk, twilight
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] dark, night.
It is declined knephatos [in the genitive].[1]
"Dismissing the officers, he mobilised his vanguard, just after dusk".[2]
Greek Original:Knephas: skotos, nux. klinetai de knephatos. ho de diapheis tous hêgemonas ekinei tên prôtoporian, knephatos arti genomenou.
Notes:
See also
kappa 1860,
kappa 1861.
[1] The only attested instance of a
knefat- stem is in the passage quoted here; the normal genitive is
kne/fous.
[2]
Polybius 8.26.10, referring to Hannibal; cf.
delta 822.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 16 December 2008@09:24:48.
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