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Headword:
Akropolis
Adler number: alpha,1015
Translated headword: acropolis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Damascius [writes]: "for the most prominent of the fortresses have, by and large, a shared nature. One would recognize what is being said from what happens where acropoleis are concerned. For while these seem to function largely as security of [= from] enemies[1] -- when there are any -- and as a safeguard of freedom, they do also often lead to slavery and evil conspiracies, as
Polybius says".[2]
Greek Original:Akropolis: Damaskios: ta gar epiphanestata tôn ochurômatôn hôs epipan koinên echei tên phusin. gnoiê d' an tis to legomenon ek tôn peri tas akropoleis sumbainontôn. hautai gar dokousi men megala sumballesthai pros asphaleian tôn polemiôn, en hois an ôsi, kai pros tên tês eleutherias phulakên, ginontai de kai pollakis aitiai douleias kai kakôn homologoumenôn, hôs phêsi Polubios.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras.
[1] Adler notes, but does not adopt, the attractive emendation (Küster, Schweighäuser) of
polemi/wn 'enemies' to
po/lewn 'cities' here.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 302 Zintzen (308 Asmus), citing
Polybius fr. 4.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 March 2000@17:10:42.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 17 January 2001@08:31:49.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 5 June 2002@08:22:20.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 1 February 2012@07:12:38.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; another note) on 28 March 2014@10:39:43.
Catharine Roth (added title) on 16 May 2015@00:33:54.
Ronald Allen (cosmeticule (name spelling) n.1, cosmeticule n.2) on 9 May 2018@22:42:33.
Ronald Allen (cosmeticule) on 2 August 2018@20:47:35.
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