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Headword:
*(upagwga/s
Adler number: upsilon,140
Translated headword: retreats
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] drawings-back. "Both advances and retreats", says
Thucydides.[1]
And elsewhere: "and [they] being afraid more than moderately to move off into a retreat".[2] Meaning into a drawing-back.
Greek Original:*(upagwga/s: ta\s a)naxwrh/seis. diw/ceis te kai\ u(pagwga/s, fhsi\ *qoukudi/dhs. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ pe/ra tou= metri/ou deimai/nontas e)s u(pagwgh\n metani/stasqai. a)nti\ tou= u(panaxw/rhsin.
Notes:
The headword is accusative plural, evidently quoted from somewhere --
not (despite the impression given), the Thucydidean phrase proffered, which is nominative plural in the original. Perhaps, rather, the very similar one in
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.8.20).
[1]
Thucydides 3.97.3 (web address 1); cf.
upsilon 141.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 2.21 (68.12-13), where the 'being afraid' participle should be nominative, not the Suda's accusative.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 26 July 2009@09:14:42.
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