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Headword: *)ambola\s gh=
Adler number: alpha,1532
Translated headword: thrown-up earth, raised earth
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning earth] which was raised up by a ditch.
Xenophon [writes]: "Cyrus used to make towers on the thrown-up earth, so that there might be as many guardposts as possible."[1]
Look under "bitten" [dakno/menos], because housebuilding and raising horses and making mounds seemed expensive to the Laconians.[2]
Greek Original:
*)ambola\s gh=: h( u(po\ tou= o)ru/gmatos u(ywqei=sa. *cenofw=n: o( de\ *ku=ros pu/rgous e)poi/ei e)pi\ th=s a)mbola/dos gh=s, o(/pws o(/ti plei=sta fulakth/ria ei)/h. zh/tei e)n tw=| dakno/menos, o(/ti to\ oi)kodomei=n kai\ i(/ppous tre/fein kai\ a)mbola\s poiei=n e)do/kei toi=s *la/kwsi dapanhra\ ei)=nai.
Notes:
Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. The headword phrase, in the nominative, is presumably generated by genitive th=s a)mbola/dos gh=s in the quotation given.
[1] Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.12 (web address 1). Pollux 7.100 registers this phrase in Xenophon.
[2] delta 22; and see also under iota 577 and omicroniota 66.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 July 2000@11:17:40.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 19 September 2000@07:15:49.
David Whitehead (added keywords) on 17 July 2002@03:27:24.
David Whitehead (more x-refs; more keywords; tweaks) on 13 February 2012@06:36:42.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 11 March 2012@00:31:39.
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