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Headword:
*tei=xos
makro/n
Adler number: tau,461
Translated headword: long wall
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Note] that the emperor Anastasius built the long wall sixty miles from the city, extending from the sea on the north to the south for a length of 50 miles and with a width of 20 feet.[1]
Interpretation of a dream: he who is sat on a wall seems to be fortunate.[2]
Greek Original:*tei=xos makro/n: o(/ti *)anasta/sios o( basileu\s kti/zei to\ makro\n tei=xos pro\ e(ch/konta mili/wn th=s po/lews, diatei/nas e)k th=s kata\ a)/rkton qala/sshs ei)s meshmbri/an mh=kos me\n mili/wn n#, eu)=ros de\ podw=n k#. lu/sis o)nei/rou: tei/xei kaqesqei\s eu)tuxh\s pe/lein do/kei.
Notes:
[1] From
alpha 2077 (end), q.v. 'The city' is
Byzantium, and the two seas mentioned here are, respectively, the Black Sea and the Propontis. For the Anastasian Long Wall Project (directed by James Crow and Alessandra Ricci), see web address 1.
[2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
Web address 1
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 April 2010@04:32:33.
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