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Headword:
*)epikate/seisen
Adler number: epsilon,2356
Translated headword: shook down on
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] threw down on.[1]
Josephus: "when
Antiochus was besieging
Jerusalem, as Eleazar the son of Matthias saw that the tallest of the elephants was ornamented, he suspected that
Antiochus was [riding] on it. Cutting through the great mass of the enemy and striking the beast under the belly he shook the elephant down on himself, accomplishing nothing more than to have aimed at great [deeds], and being crushed he perished."[2]
*)epikate/seisen: e)pikate/balen. *)iw/shpos: poliorkou=ntos *)antio/xou ta\ *(ieroso/luma, i)dw\n *)elea/zaros o( ui(o\s *matqi/ou to\n u(yhlo/taton tw=n e)lefa/ntwn kekosmhme/non, u(polabw\n e)p' au)tou= to\n *)anti/oxon ei)=nai, polu\ diako/yas to\ sti/fos tw=n polemi/wn kai\ to\ qhri/on u(po\ th\n gaste/ra plh/cas e)pikate/seisen e(autw=| to\n e)le/fanta, mhde\n dra/sas plei=on tou= mega/lois e)pibale/sqai, kai\ suntribei\s a)pw/leto.
Notes:
[1] The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is third person singular, aorist indicative active, of the rare doubly-compound verb
e)pikatasei/w.
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish War 1.1.5 (abridged): see web address 1. For this episode, from 164 BCE, see also
1 Maccabees 6.42-47
LXX; the '
Antiochus' in question is King
Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 March 2006@18:28:28.
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