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Headword: *diopth=res
Adler number: delta,1193
Translated headword: scouts
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the watchers, the advanced guards.[1] "Due to the rain pouring down, as the Avars contrived, and to the air being foggy and dark, the scouts were not able to distinguish the enemy coming to assault" [2].
Greek Original:
*diopth=res: oi( e)pithrhtai/, oi( profu/lakes. kataxeome/nou tou= e)c e)pitexnh/sews o)/mbrou tw=n *)aba/rwn kai\ sunnefou=s o)/ntos tou= a)e/ros kai\ e)se/ti skotw/dous ou)x oi(=oi/ te e)ge/nonto oi( diopth=res diagnw=nai e)pio/ntas tou\s dusmenei=s.
Notes:
[1] cf. delta 1992, and see also e.g. Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes 36 (katopth=ras stratou=) with the scholia there.
[2] This unattributed historiographical quotation apparently stems from Menander the Guardsman (a.k.a. Menander Protector). Blockley registers it as fr. 35.2, while expressing (287 with n.329) some uncertainty about the attribution.
Reference:
R.C. Blockley, The history of Menander the Guardsman: introductory essay, text, translation and historiographical notes, Liverpool, Cairns, 1985
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 11 January 2005@20:07:09.
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