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Headword: *(amacito/n
Adler number: alpha,1489
Translated headword: wagon-road
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] public highway.[1]
Malchus [writes][2]: "the entrance into Cilicia was a wagon-road, terribly steep and impossible for an army to enter, if anyone prevented."[3]
Greek Original:
*(amacito/n: o(do\n dhmosi/an. *ma/lxos: h( de\ ei)sbolh\ th=s *kiliki/as a(macito\s h)=n o(do/s, o)rqi/a i)sxurw=s kai\ a)mh/xanos ei)selqei=n strateu/mati, ei)/ tis e)kw/luen.
Notes:
The headword, which has the same glossing in other lexica, is accusative case. It is quoted (as Latte notes on Hesychius s.v.) from Homer, Iliad 22.146; cf. the scholia there.
[1] Literally, one on which it is possible to travel in a wagon or cart, a(/maxa (alpha 1486).
[2] A sophist and historian of the fourth century CE: see mu 120. The quotation is not from him, however, but from a much earlier writer (see next note), and indeed the word a(macito/s is common enough in all periods.
[3] Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.21 (see web address 1).
Reference:
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 9 June 2000@08:51:30.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Altered wording, added link and keywords.) on 24 August 2000@00:59:54.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 19 September 2000@07:06:29.
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 7 July 2002@06:00:45.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, bibliography) on 27 December 2009@01:06:09.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 27 December 2009@05:01:57.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords) on 12 February 2012@06:01:29.
David Whitehead on 20 August 2013@08:36:53.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note and link) on 9 December 2013@11:35:09.

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