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Headword: Akêruktôs emignunto
Adler number: alpha,871
Translated headword: they mixed unheralded
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. The phrase occurs] in Thucydides;[1] that is, without a herald's wand, as indeed [one comes] to friends. For the sake of security, those who wished to visit enemies did so with a herald's wand, which they considered it unholy and impious to mistreat.
Greek Original:
Akêruktôs emignunto: para Thoukudidêi: toutestin aneu kêrukeiou, hôs pros philous dêthen. hoi gar pros echthrous apiontes asphaleias heneken hosoi eboulonto meta kêrukeiou apêiesan, hous anosion hêgounto kai asebes kakourgein.
Notes:
cf. generally alpha 870.
[1] Thucydides 1.146 (abridged and recast: e)pemei/gnunto ... a)khru/ktws me/n, a)nupo/ptws de\ ou)/). The material given here appears in the scholia on that passage.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 November 2000@23:19:20.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note) on 7 November 2000@06:31:20.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 5 November 2006@06:53:39.
David Whitehead (x-ref; another keyword; tweaks) on 25 January 2012@09:34:53.
David Whitehead on 11 May 2015@10:33:17.

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