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Headword:
Ambolas
gê
Adler number: alpha,1532
Translated headword: thrown-up earth, raised earth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning earth] which was raised up by a ditch.
Xenophon [writes]: "Cyrus used to make towers on the thrown-up earth, so that there might be as many guardposts as possible."[1]
Look under "bitten" [
dakno/menos], because housebuilding and raising horses and making mounds seemed expensive to the Laconians.[2]
Ambolas gê: hê hupo tou orugmatos hupsôtheisa. Xenophôn: ho de Kuros purgous epoiei epi tês ambolados gês, hopôs hoti pleista phulaktêria eiê. zêtei en tôi daknomenos, hoti to oikodomein kai hippous trephein kai ambolas poiein edokei tois Lakôsi dapanêra einai.
Notes:
Likewise in ps.-
Zonaras. The headword phrase, in the nominative, is presumably generated by genitive
th=s a)mbola/dos gh=s in the quotation given.
[1]
Xenophon,
Cyropaedia 7.5.12 (web address 1).
Pollux 7.100 registers this phrase in
Xenophon.
[2]
delta 22; and see also under
iota 577 and
omicroniota 66.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 July 2000@11:17:40.
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