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Headword:
*leipo/meqa
Adler number: lambda,383
Translated headword: we are lost
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] we have been defeated. "No sooner had the praetor announced to the crowds, 'We are lost in a great battle,' than it produced such consternation [that...]."[1]
Also a [sc. phenomenon in] syntax: "prisoners taken were two thousand, less two hundred."[2]
Greek Original:*leipo/meqa: h(tth/meqa. a(/ma tw=| to\n strathgo\n ei)pei=n toi=s o)/xlois, o(/ti leipo/meqa ma/xh| mega/lh|, thlikau/thn sune/bh gene/sqai diatroph/n. kai\ su/ntacis: e(a/lwsan de\ ai)xma/lwtoi disxi/lioi lei/pontes diakosi/wn.
Notes:
[1]
Polybius 3.85.8 (on the Battle of Lake Trasimene, 217 BCE; web address 1). For the idiom see already
lambda 378, with another piece of
Polybius.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable -- but for the idiom see generally LSJ s.v.
lei/pw, A.II.2.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 September 2001@09:26:51.
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