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Headword:
*polemw=sai
Adler number: pi,1893
Translated headword: to provoke to war
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to make [someone] an enemy. Also [sc. attested is the compound verb] e)kpolemw=sai ["to provoke to war"].[1]
"The Turks sent an embassy to Justinian, on condition that he join them in making war on the Persians."[2]
Greek Original:*polemw=sai: pole/mion katasth=sai. kai\ *)ekpolemw=sai. e)/steilan de\ oi( *tou=rkoi w(s *)ioustiniano\n presbei/an, e)f' w(=| sunekpolemw=sai/ ge au)to\n *pe/rsais.
Notes:
[1] The primary headword is the aorist active infinitive of
polemo/w; the secondary one is the same form of
e)kpolemo/w (cf.
epsilon 589). The subsequent quotation contains a further compound form of this verb.
[2] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 13.5 Blockley.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 July 2007@19:16:11.
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