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Headword:
Aphaptein
Adler number: alpha,4555
Translated headword: to fasten
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Appian [writes]: "he appointed two champions who had thick wooden [spears] two cubits long overlaid with iron, which they intended to fasten into the elephants, like catapults, at close range";[1] that is, to stick onto [them].[2]
Greek Original:Aphaptein: Appianos: histê de promachous xula pachea echontas dipêchea sesidêrômena, ha emellon hôs katapeltas ek cheiros es tous elephantas aphaptein, toutesti proskollan.
Notes:
The headword infinitive purports to be extracted from the quotation given, but see next note.
[1] An approximation of Appian,
Punica 41 (=
Libyca 173); when the passage reappears, under
kappa 699, the infinitive is
proskolla=n (the gloss here); and the Teubner edition of Appian prints
a)fh/sein.
[2] For this gloss cf. generally
alpha 4567.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 August 2001@17:59:16.
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