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Headword:
*(alw/sima
Adler number: alpha,1401
Translated headword: easily-caught [things]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones] easily taken hold of.[1]
Arrian [writes]: "starting out from the citadels he plundered and pillaged no small part of the land under that man's control, and he was in no way easily caught by him."[2]
Greek Original:*(alw/sima: eu)/lhpta. *)arriano/s: a)po\ tw=n frouri/wn o(rmw/menos h)=ge te kai\ e)/fere th=s u(p' e)kei/nw| ou)k o)li/ghn, kai\ au)to\s ou)damh=| h)=n au)tw=| a(lw/simos.
Notes:
The headword, which has the same or similar glossing in other lexica (references at
Photius alpha1092 Theodoridis), is neuter plural of this adjective. It is evidently quoted from somewhere -- perhaps
Xenophon,
Anabasis 5.2.3, though there are other possibilities.
[2] Arrian,
Affairs after Alexander fr. 31 Roos (= FGrH 156 F117); again (with a slightly different opening) at
eta 38.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 June 2000@10:46:30.
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