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Headword:
Apologismos
Adler number: alpha,3401
Translated headword: explanation
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Polybios [writes]: "Xanthippos, coming into their hands, revealed to the [sc. Carthaginian] leaders the explanations for why they were now failing and how they could defeat their enemies."[1]
Greek Original:Apologismos: Polubios: ho de Xanthippos paragenomenos eis cheiras ephere tois archousi tous apologismous, para ti nun sphaleiêsan, kai pôs dunainto tous enantious nikan.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is evidently generated by the quotation given.
See also
alpha 3400.
[1] An approximation of
Polybios 1.32.4, on an episode in the First Punic War; cf.
Diodorus Siculus 23.14.
Keywords: biography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 28 January 2002@16:10:42.
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