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Headword:
Apobatês
Adler number: alpha,3250
Translated headword: dismounter
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Dismounter] and to dismount and dismounting-circuits: a dismounter is [sc. participant in] an equestrian competition, and to dismount [is] to compete as a dismounter. Dismounting-circuits [are] those [so called] from this competition.
Greek Original:Apobatês kai Apobainein kai Apobatikoi trochoi: apobatês men hippikon ti agônisma esti, kai apobênai to agônisasthai ton apobatên. apobatikoi de trochoi, hoi apo toutou tou agônismatos.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v., who cites
Dinarchus,
Lycurgus, and (for the information that such an event was found only in
Athens and Boiotia)
Theophrastus on this. See also Kassel-Austin,
PCG II p.34 (s.v.
Alexis).
"Dismounting" meant, in practice, vaulting from one horse to another: see LSJ.
Keywords: athletics; comedy; definition; geography; philosophy; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 October 2000@09:23:10.
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