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Headword:
Akrônux
Adler number: alpha,1027
Translated headword: nail-tip, mountain-top
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning both] the tip of the nail and the top of the mountain.[1] And [sc. also attested is]
a)krwnuxi/a [used] likewise.[2]
"When he happened upon a detachment guarding a position at the top of the mountain, with a sudden attack he put them to flight."[3]
There is also [sc. attested]
a)krwnuxi/a, the pinnacle of the mountain.
And
Xenophon [writes]: "but when Kheirisophos saw that the pinnacle of the mountain had already been occupied, from which was the descent into the plain [...]".[4]
"As they came closer a pinnacle of a mountain rose above [them]."[5]
Akrônux: to akron tou onuchos kai to akron tou orous. kai Akrônuchia homoiôs. ho de phulakêi tini epi tês akrônuchias entuchôn, tautêi aiphnidiôi prosbolêi etrepsato. esti de kai Akrônuchia, hê akrôreia tou orous. kai Xenophôn: epei de heôra Cheirisophos prokateilêmmenên tên akrônuchian tou orous, aph' hês hê katabasis ên eis to pedion. endoterô chôrountôn akrônuchia orous epanistato.
Notes:
[1] From
a)/kros "high" and
o)/nuc "nail, claw, hoof";
a)krw/nuc is attested, besides here, only in ps.Herodian.
[2] At
alpha 1012, these are distinguished from
a)kro/nuc and
a)kronuxi/a with omicron.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[4] Quoted approximately from
Xenophon,
Anabasis 3.4.37-38 (see web address 1); compare also
Xenophon,
Hellenica 4.6.7.
[5] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; imagery; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2001@19:18:44.
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