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Headword: Anchômalon
Adler number: alpha,418
Translated headword: closely-matched
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Also [sc. attested is] a)gxwma/lou,[1] [meaning] equal, nearly even.[2]
"After they engaged and fought a closely-matched battle, neither taking any prisoners nor making any further headway, they departed."[3]
And elsewhere: "a ferocious cavalry battle occurred, one that was closely-matched in the number of combatants and displayed similar bravery [sc. on both sides]."[4]
Greek Original:
Anchômalon. kai Anchômalou, isês, engus tou homalou. summixantes kai anchômala agônisamenoi kai mête zôgrêsantes tina mête es to pleon eti prochôrêsantes dieluthêsan. kai authis: hippomachia ginetai kartera kai plêthei tôn agônizomenôn anchômalos kai aretais empherês.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective.
[1] The genitive case of the headword; and see further, next note.
[2] The first of these glosses is feminine, and occurs also in the scholia to the passage which has surely generated this paragraph: Thucydides 4.134.2 (referring to an evenly-poised battle -- as in the further quotations given here).
[3] Quotation (transmitted, according to Adler, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[4] Quotation (transmitted, according to Adler, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 31 October 2000@12:05:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 29 April 2002@11:15:17.
David Whitehead (another note) on 14 April 2004@09:52:31.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 21 February 2011@04:52:50.
David Whitehead on 27 February 2011@04:44:41.
David Whitehead (firmed up n.2) on 9 January 2012@08:56:58.
Catharine Roth (note tweaks) on 14 February 2015@10:59:13.

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