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Headword:
Katadusantes
tas
naus
Adler number: kappa,540
Translated headword: having sunk the ships, having disabled the ships
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In
Thucydides [sc. this expression is used] also in reference to damaging but not submerging.
Greek Original:Katadusantes tas naus: para Thoukudidêi kai epi tou trôsantes, ouchi de epi tou baptisantes.
Notes:
From a scholion on
Thucydides 1.54.2, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1).
The participle is aorist active, masculine nominative plural (referring to the Corinthians at the battle of
Sybota), of
katadu/w: cf.
kappa 538,
kappa 539.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 April 2008@12:28:07.
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