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Headword:
*prosko/pwn
Adler number: pi,2742
Translated headword: lookouts
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] forward-guards. "Trajan, after always sending out certain false announcements through the lookouts, had the habit of travelling in a crowd and, at the same time, not being disturbed by sources of fear."[1]
Greek Original:*prosko/pwn: profula/kwn. o( de\ *traiano/s tinas a)ggeli/as yeudei=s dia\ tw=n prosko/pwn a)ei\ kaqiei\s ei)/qizen a(/ma me\n e)n ko/smw| poreu/esqai, a(/ma de\ pro\s ta\ fobera\ mh\ tara/ttesqai.
Notes:
Both the headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) and the gloss are in fact genitive plurals of these nouns.
[1] Ascribed to Arrian,
Parthica (fr. 41 Roos-Wirth), though this may be a misleading abridgement of Arrian's original text. Cf.
kappa 102. For the broader context cf.
Cassius Dio 68.23.2.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 28 August 2013@13:51:22.
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