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Headword:
*)enwmoti/a
Adler number: epsilon,1408
Translated headword: enomotia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A military unit [consisting] of 25 men[1] amongst [the] Spartans.[2] Its name derives from the [fact that] they swore [o)mnu/nai] not to desert the unit.[3]
But others [define] an enomotia as the half of the lochos;[4] the same thing is also [called] a dekania; and others assert that an enomotia is the quarter of the lochos.[5] Also [sc. attested is the term] enomotarch, its leader.[6]
Greek Original:*)enwmoti/a: ta/cis tis stratiwtikh\ a)ndrw=n e# kai\ k# para\ *lakedaimoni/ois. ei)/rhtai de\ a)po\ tou= o)mnu/nai au)tou\s mh\ lei/yein th\n ta/cin. oi( de\ e)nwmoti/an to\ h(/misu tou= lo/xou: to\ au)to\ de\ kai\ dekani/a: oi( de\ to\ te/tarton tou= lo/xou e)nwmoti/an fasi/. kai\ *)enwmota/rxhs, o( au)th=s a)/rxwn.
Notes:
For this headword in another sense see
epsilon 1409. The present entry, like others of its type, struggles to combine definitions of (Spartan and other) army terminology found in the classical period -- in this instance in
Herodotus,
Thucydides and
Xenophon, principally -- with their later and often different meanings in Hellenistic-era and Roman-era military treatises. See further below.
[1] cf.
scholia to
Thucydides 5.66.3. (But an
e)nwmoti/a of 32 soldiers is referred to by
scholia to
Thucydides 5.68.3.)
[2] cf.
Xenophon,
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 11.8. (Wrongly assigned to the Athenians by a glossator to
Herodotus 1.65.5.)
[3] Etymology as in
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon epsilon985b10. See also e.g.
Hesychius epsilon3464,
ta/cis tis dia\ sfagi/wn e)nw/motos.
[4] (For the
lochos see
lambda 706,
lambda 718,
lambda 719.) Compare Arrian,
Tactica 6.3: '
Xenophon does not make clear how much of a
lochos the
e)nwmoti/a is'.
[5]
oi( de\ to\ te/tarton - o( au)th=s a)/rxwn (Arrian,
Tactica 6.3; cf.
Aelian,
Tactica 5.2;
Asclepiodotus 2.2).
[6] See already
epsilon 1407; and cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 345.12ff., with the gloss
ta/cews tino\s stratiwtikh=s a)/rxwn para\ *lakedaimoni/ois.
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 20 September 2007@11:35:41.
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