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Headword:
Aphippa
chôria
Adler number: alpha,4621
Translated headword: horseless places, places impossible for horses
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones] in which it is not possible to ride a horse.[1]
"He turned away to the difficult and steep and impossible-for-horses [places]."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the the masculine nominative plural] a)/fippoi ["horseless"], [meaning] without horses. "They were very afraid because they were in a deserted place and especially because they were now horseless."[3] Meaning on foot.[4]
Greek Original:Aphippa chôria: en hois an mê estin hippasasthai. ho de ekklinei pros ta duschôra te kai anantê kai aphippa. kai Aphippoi, chôris hippôn. perideeis de êsan hôs en erêmiai ta te alla kai aphippoi genomenoi. anti tou pezoi.
Notes:
[1] For this headword phrase, a neuter plural, see
delta 1614.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 5.10.1.
[3]
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr. 21 Habrich.
[4] For another technical meaning of
a)/fippoi, see
iota 546.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 June 2001@22:43:05.
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