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Phalanx
Adler number: phi,34
Translated headword: phalanx
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A small spider.[1] Also 'phalanges' is a name they give to the tips of the fingers, as
Aristophanes says in
Frogs: "spiders that whirl with your fingers the loom-stretched threads".[2]
Also a military unit [formed] out of 40(?) men.[3]
"Lucius the consul, who had never seen a phalanx until that occasion in the war against Perseus, often afterwards would confess to certain people in Rome that he had never seen anything more frightening [and dreadful] than a Macedonian phalanx -- and this despite having not only witnessed but also directed as many battles as anyone."[4]
Greek Original:Phalanx: arachnion ti. legousi de phalangas kai ta akra tôn daktulôn, haper legei Aristophanês en Batrachois: heilissete daktulois phalanges histotona pênismata. kai stratiôtikê taxis ek m# andrôn. Leukios de ho hupatos ouch heôrakôs phalanga toparapan, alla tote prôton epi tou Perseôs, pros tinas pollakis anthômologeito tôn en têi Rhômêi mêden heôrakenai phoberôteron Makedonôn phalangos: kaitoi ge pollous ou monon tetheamenos, alla kai cheirisamenos agônas, ei kai tis allos.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 July 2009@10:03:11.
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