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Headword:
*keramwto/n
Adler number: kappa,1361
Translated headword: tiled
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A tactical disposition; one which [the] Romans used to make as an amusement.[1]
Interpretation of a dream: walking on tiles, you would avoid being hurt by ill-wishers.[2]
Greek Original:*keramwto/n: taktikh\ dia/tacis: o(/per e)poi/oun *(rwmai=oi e)n paidia=s me/rei. lu/sis o)nei/rou: bai/nwn kera/mois dusmenw=n bla/bas fu/gh|s.
Notes:
[1]
Polybius 28.11.3 [NB: not in the Loeb edition], on -- supposedly -- the first-ever use of the Roman
testudo manoeuvre; cf. Livy 44.9.3-9 for a fuller version, including the alleged origins in the arena (
ludicro circensi ad usum belli verso).
[2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 October 2008@06:20:05.
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