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Headword:
*)epika/qhtai
Adler number: epsilon,2346
Translated headword: besieges; would besiege
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] impends.
Polybios [writes]: "he walls the city off from the height, so that fear of those who were occupying the heights would no longer besiege the Tarantines."[1]
*)epika/qhtai: e)pikre/matai. *polu/bios: o( de\ diateixi/zei th\n po/lin a)po\ th=s a)/kras, i(/na mhdei\s e)/ti fo/bos e)pika/qhtai toi=s *taranti/nois a)po\ tw=n katexo/ntwn th\n a)kro/polin.
Notes:
In form the headword verb (present, third person singular) could be either indicative or subjunctive. Here it would be the latter if it is extracted from the quotation given. (The gloss however, here and in other lexica, is indicative.)
[1]
Polybios 8.32.2, slightly abridged, with "he" being Hannibal and "those...occupying" being the Romans. Probably derived from a lost part of the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. A similar quotation is ascribed to
Procopius in
Lexicon Vindobonense epsilon63.
Translated by: William Hutton on 9 November 2007@10:17:55.
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