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Headword: Akrobolismos
Adler number: alpha,997
Translated headword: skirmishing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] provocation.[1]
And [meaning] to strike the top.[2]
"Leading the barbarians, he consulted with his brother and said 'I will make an ambush; you employ skirmishings and arrows'." ["He consulted"] meaning he gave plans and intentions.[3]
Greek Original:
Akrobolismos: erethismos. kai to akron ballein. ho de tôn barbarôn hêgoumenos egnômateue xun tôi adelphôi kai elexen, hôs egô men enedran poiêsomai, su de chrô akrobolismois kai toxeumasin. anti tou boulas edidou kai gnômas.
Notes:
The headword literally means fighting at a distance, fighting with projectiles; cf. alpha 995, alpha 996, alpha 998.
[1] Same glossing in Photius and elsewhere.
[2] For this etymology see already alpha 996.
[3] Both the quotation (from Menander Protector) and the gloss come from epsilon 145, q.v.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 March 2000@21:36:29.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 26 January 2001@05:40:20.
David Whitehead (corrected one of my x-refs) on 21 December 2005@03:44:39.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 31 January 2012@08:45:01.
Catharine Roth (tweaked punctuation) on 27 April 2012@23:30:49.
David Whitehead on 21 May 2015@08:14:00.
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