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Headword: Astandai
Adler number: alpha,4220
Translated headword: couriers
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] those carrying letters in relays. The same people [were] also [called] angaroi ["mounted couriers"]. The words [are] Persian.
Greek Original:
Astandai: hoi ek diadochês grammatophoroi. hoi de autoi kai angaroi. ta de onomata Persika.
Notes:
From alpha 165, q.v.
()Entry lacking, Adler reports, in three of the manuscripts.)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 January 2002@07:17:13.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 6 January 2002@06:04:10.
David Whitehead on 25 April 2012@07:31:08.
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