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Headword:
*)ento\s
e(bdo/mhs
Adler number: epsilon,1481
Translated headword: before (the) seventh
Vetting Status: high
Translation: At
Athens it was forbidden to lead out an army before [the] seventh.[1]
*)ento\s e(bdo/mhs: *)aqh/nhsin a)pei/rhto e)nto\s e(bdo/mhs stratia\n e)ca/gein.
Notes:
cf.
Zenobius 3.79;
Hesychius epsilon3383;
Photius,
Lexicon epsilon1039.
Such a stipulation is otherwise unattested. (
Photius says the reason for it had been given in
Callimachus'
Aitia.) For the preposition
e)nto/s in this sense see LSJ s.v.
[1] sc. day of the month: explicit in
Hesychius,
Zenobius and
Photius. (Contrast e.g.
Plutarch,
Marius 17.11, where
e)nto\s e)bdo/mhs h(me/ras refers to the tribune Aulus
Pompeius dying 'within a week'.)
W.K. Pritchett, The Greek State at War I (1971, reissued 1974) 116-121; III (1979) 228-229
Keywords: chronology; daily life; ethics; law; military affairs; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 November 2002@07:41:15.
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