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Headword: Apeponoun
Adler number: alpha,3032
Translated headword: they finished work
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] they abated their labour.
"But when the Romans finished work, groping around in the murk on their underground [tunnels], they encamped around the castle Chlomaron."[1]
Greek Original:
Apeponoun: tou ponou elêgon. all' hote Rhômaioi apeponoun erebodiphountes ta hupochthonia, stratopedeuousin amphi to phrourion to Chlomarôn.
Notes:
The headword verb is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 2.7.6. Both the headword verb itself, a)popone/w, and other vocabulary here (see epsilon 2921) come from Aristophanic comedy. See also phi 743, chi 348.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 January 2001@08:11:52.
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