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Headword:
*ai)/qein
Adler number: alphaiota,119
Translated headword: to set ablaze
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to burn.[1]
"As soon as he invaded the enemy territory, he started giving the order to set the land ablaze and destroy it."[2]
Greek Original:*ai)/qein: kai/ein. w(s de\ e)ne/balen ei)s th\n polemi/an, parekeleu/eto ai)/qein kai\ fqei/rein th\n xw/ran.
Notes:
[1] Same equivalence in Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon (13.30) and also in
Hesychius, where Latte regards the headword infinitive as extracted from
Euripides,
Rhesus 78. Other possibilities include line 823 of that play, and
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 1033. See also the next note.
[2] A close approximation of
Xenophon,
Anabasis 4.7.20.
Translated by: William Hutton on 30 October 2002@21:23:34.
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