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Headword:
Aneballeto
Adler number: alpha,2209
Translated headword: was striking up, was starting up
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] was making a preamble, was beginning, was starting in, and meaning (?)was excelling.
Arrian [writes]: "he was striking up the ravaging of the rest of the territory, thinking the Athenians would give in."[1]
For preludes [a)nabolai/] are both the strikings-up and the starts [proper].[2] Hence the [use of] 'was starting' [h)/rxeto] and 'was starting off' [a)ph/rxeto].
Also [sc. attested is] a)neba/llonto, [meaning] they were fashioning.
Greek Original:Aneballeto: prooimiazeto, anekroueto, enêrcheto, kai anti tou huperetitheto. Arrianos: aneballeto tên tês allês chôras dêiôsin, oiomenos endôsein Athênaious. Anabolas gar kai tas anakrouseis kai tas archas. hothen kai to êrcheto kai apêrcheto. kai Aneballonto, anti tou eschêmatizonto.
Notes:
Same or similar material, variously, in other lexica and
scholia. The headword is perhaps (though not demonstrably) extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Arrian,
History of Alexander's Successors fr. 21 Roos-Wirth (FGrH 156 F124).
[2] See already
alpha 1810.
Keywords: biography; definition; epic; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; meter and music
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 June 2000@06:19:54.
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