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Neôsoikoi
Adler number: nu,240
Translated headword: neosoikoi, shipsheds
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] buildings, beside the sea, built for the reception of ships, when they are not at sea.[1]
[It is said] that Polykrates, tyrant of the Samians, imprisoned in shipsheds the children and wives of the citizens who were his subjects and kept them in readiness, in case those [men] should betray [him] to his attackers, in order to burn them [along with] the shipsheds themselves.[2]
Greek Original:Neôsoikoi: oikêmata para têi thalassêi oikodomoumena eis hupodochên neôn, hote mê thalatteuoien. hoti Polukratês ho Samiôn turannos tôn huph' heôutôi ontôn poliêteôn ta tekna kai tas gunaikas es neôsoikous suneilêsas eichen hetoimous, ên ara prodidôsin houtoi pros tous kationtas, hupoprêsai autoisi toisi neôsoikoisi.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica: references at
Photius nu167 Theodoridis. For this headword cf. already under
nu 235.
[2]
Herodotus 3.45.4 (web address 1)
For Polykrates' tyranny see generally G. Shipley, A History of Samos 800-188 BC (Oxford 1987) chapters 4-5
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; biography; children; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; politics; science and technology; women
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 13 October 2000@13:28:03.
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