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Headword:
*naumaxw=
Adler number: nu,65
Translated headword: I fight a sea-battle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with a dative. "You will fight a sea-battle against both the Corcyreans and the Pelopidai simultaneously".[1] But [sc. also used] with an accusative. "First he fought and won a sea-battle against the royal/imperial fleet".[2]
Greek Original:*naumaxw=: dotikh=|. *kerkurai/ois te kai\ *pelopi/dais a(/ma naumaxh/sete. ai)tiatikh=| de/: prw=ton me\n to\n basiliko\n katenauma/xhse sto/lon.
Notes:
cf. generally
nu 63.
[1]
Thucydides 1.36.3 (web address 1), here with the ludicrous 'Pelopidai' for
Thucydides' 'Peloponnesians'.
[2] Adler tentatively suggested
Cassius Dio or
Diodorus Siculus as the source of this quotation. Probably in fact the latter -- an approximation of 11.57.2, on
Themistocles:
katenauma/xhse to\n sto/lon tw=n *persw=n. In any event, illustrative of accusative, not dative -- and the compound version of the verb, meaning not merely fight but win (cf.
kappa 666).
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Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 December 2003@09:12:11.
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