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Headword: *)eswma/skei
Adler number: epsilon,3175
Translated headword: was exercising the body
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she] was training, was preparing, was laboring painfully, was making ready.[1]
"By bribing many of the Isaurians he was training their bodies in the [skills needed] for war."[2]
Greek Original:
*)eswma/skei: sunekro/tei, hu)tre/pizen, w)/dinen, h(toi/mazen. o( de\ pollou\s deka/zwn tw=n *)isau/rwn ta\ kata\ to\n po/lemon e)swma/skei.
Notes:
[1] The headword is third person singular, imperfect, of the verb swmaske/w (cf. sigma 837, sigma 839); presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Source (and individual) unidentifiable. For the Isaurians cf. iota 616.
Keywords: athletics; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 January 2008@01:55:11.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; another keyword) on 20 January 2008@04:20:07.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 31 October 2012@08:17:49.

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