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Headword:
Anazugais
Adler number: alpha,1868
Translated headword: withdrawals
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] returns, breakings of camp.[1]
Polybius [writes]: but Philip "made the withdrawal and the return voyage with no order at all and put into
Kephallenia on the second day."[2]
"But the Romans, knowing absolutely nothing of what had happened, were engaged in a withdrawal."[3]
Anazugais: anastrophais, stratopedeiais. Polubios: ho de Philippos oudeni kosmôi poiêsamenos tên anazugên kai ton anaploun deuteraios eis Kephallênian katêiren. hoi de Rhômaioi tôn gegonotôn ouden holôs eidotes peri anazugên eginonto.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica. The headword, a dative plural, is taken to be quoted from the
Septuagint (
Exodus 40.38), though perhaps [DW] there is a likelier instance in
Polybius (5.52.3).
[2]
Polybius 5.110.5.
Kephallenia (Cephalonia, Kephalonia, Cephallania; cf.
kappa 1448; Barrington Atlas map 54 grid C5) is the largest Ionian island off the western Greek coast.
[3]
Polybius fr. 103 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (pp. 528-529) that Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this fragment to
Polybius.
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 May 2001@13:23:05.
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