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Headword:
*delea/zontes
Adler number: delta,196
Translated headword: enticing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they] disguising. "The Scythopolitans lay low for two days, enticing their trust, but on the third night, having kept watch for the opportunity, they killed the man as he slept."[1]
Greek Original:*delea/zontes: e)pikru/ptontes. oi( de\ *skuqopoli=tai du/o h(me/ras h)re/mhsan th\n pi/stin au)tw=n delea/zontes, th=| de\ tri/th| nukti\ parathrh/santes koimw/menon a)nei=lon.
Notes:
The headword participle is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
cf. generally
delta 197,
delta 198,
delta 199.
[1]
Josephus,
Jewish War 2.468, where the sentence ends somewhat differently: they cut the throats of a number of men, some unguarded and some sleeping. (See web address 1 below.)
Scythopolis, a.k.a.
Nysa, is in present-day Israel: Barrington Atlas map 69 grid C4.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 December 2003@17:40:21.
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