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Headword:
*)efestri/s
Adler number: epsilon,3874
Translated headword: ephestris, mantle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[...] out of which the archers, covered with their mantles, shoot at those on the walls."[1]
[Meaning] a textile [made] out of goat hairs.[2]
"...[they were] hanging mantles and fleeces around it, since such barriers would not be easily flammable."[3]
Greek Original:*)efestri/s. e)c w(=n oi( toco/tai tai=s e)festri/si kalupto/menoi ba/llousi tou\s e)pi\ tw=n teixw=n. u(/fasma e)c ai)gei/wn trixw=n. a)rtw=ntes ku/klw| e)festri/das kai\ na/kh, w(s a)\n ta\ toiau=ta problh/mata mh\ eu)/flekta ei)/h.
Notes:
For entries with the same headword see also
epsilon 3873 and
epsilon 3875.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable (but perhaps from the same work as the other quotation here, which also deals with siege tactics).
[2] This delayed gloss on the headword is unparalleled elsewhere, but for '[made] out of goat hairs' see also under
epsilon 52 (and cf. more generally
kappa 1588).
[3]
Dexippus FGrH 100 F29.23-24 (preserved in the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti).
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 February 2007@10:34:20.
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