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Headword: *prwqh/bas
Adler number: pi,2942
Translated headword: young adults
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Appian [writes]: "for the sparing of the men who had returned from the war, he was enlisting young adults, who had no prior experience of war, into 2 legions."[1]
Greek Original:
*prwqh/bas: *)appiano/s: o( de\ feidoi= tw=n a)ndrw=n tw=n e)k tou= pole/mou e)lhluqo/twn kate/lege prwqh/bas, ou) pri\n pole/mou pepeirame/nous, e)s b# te/lh.
Notes:
The headword, an accusative plural form of the noun prwqh/bhs (as in the quotation that follows), is difficult to render with a single English noun. Literally 'first-youths', i.e. those in the first stage of young manhood. The lemma, unglossed here, may be a remnant of an entry similar to Hesychius pi4132, Synagoge pi349, and Photius pi1234 Theodoridis, deriving from commentary on Homer, Iliad 8.518 (where the headword occurs in this case and number). For more on this noun see the next entry, pi 2943.
[1] An abridgement (in Adler's opinion via the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus) of Appian, Iberica 274. The passage refers to the campaigns of Q. Fabius Maximus Aemilianus in Iberia (142 BCE).
Keywords: biography; children; epic; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: William Hutton on 9 October 2013@13:49:03.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 10 October 2013@00:50:39.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 10 October 2013@03:43:12.
William Hutton (cosmeticule) on 10 October 2013@03:55:43.
David Whitehead on 22 October 2013@05:02:44.

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