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Headword: *)acio/loga ba/rh
Adler number: alpha,2811
Translated headword: noteworthy weights
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"So that we might send from the towers well-aimed [and] noteworthy weights of stones."[1]
"And [he] having strewn the roads with noteworthy stones."[2]
"And [he] having bridged the marshes with noteworthy coverings."[3] That is, attractive, large [ones].
And elsewhere: "[...] Mermeroes to point out to us, since it is not a remarkable country, nor even worth fighting for, nor a task for a royal expedition; but one of its peoples are amongst those near the Caucasus."[4]
Greek Original:
*)acio/loga ba/rh: w(s a)\n a)po\ tw=n pu/rgwn pe/mpwmen e(khbolw/tata a)cio/loga li/qwn ba/rh. kai\ a)ciolo/gois katastrw/sas li/qois ta\s o(dou/s. kai\ ei)lh/masin a)ciolo/gois tou\s u(drostatoume/nous gefurw/sas. toute/stin eu)prepe/si, megi/stois. kai\ au)=qis: to\n *mermero/hn h(mi=n shma=nai, w(s ou)k e)/stin a)cio/logos h( xw/ra, ou)de\ mh\n perima/xhtos, ou)de\ basilikh=s e)/rgon e)kstratei/as: a)ll' e(\n u(pa/rxei tw=n e)qnw=n tw=n peri\ to\n *kau/kason.
Notes:
The headword phrase, in the neuter plural, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Synesius, Letters 133.16 (with optative pe/mpoimen). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.XCVI. The same passage is quoted at alpha 2621.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4] Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley; cf. mu 637 (and pi 2201).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 November 2000@08:53:25.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword, translation, keywords; added notes) on 12 March 2001@08:26:26.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 15 August 2002@09:48:43.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; added a keyword) on 10 August 2006@03:25:15.
David Whitehead (augmented notes, inc a source identification; tweaks) on 28 February 2011@06:06:23.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 12 October 2011@06:00:41.
David Whitehead (updated a reference) on 3 January 2012@04:48:21.
David Whitehead on 21 March 2012@07:07:04.
David Whitehead on 1 August 2015@06:59:17.
Catharine Roth (another cross-reference) on 23 October 2021@17:10:23.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 23 April 2023@18:33:27.

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