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Headword: *)exu/rwma
Adler number: epsilon,4050
Translated headword: security, security-barrier
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] safety.[1]
"He brought up sharp stakes, jumped on the security-barrier, and flew through the air".[2]
Greek Original:
*)exu/rwma: a)sfa/leia. o( de\ sko/lopas o)cei=s e)pifero/menos e)na/lletai tw=| e)xurw/mati kai\ metewroporei=.
Notes:
[1] The headword is a neuter noun related to epsilon 4051, epsilon 4052 and epsilon 4053. The glossing term is an abstract feminine noun, but the headword itself implies something more concrete (both in general and in the quotation given).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 2.18.15; see more fully at sigma 100 (the entry for Sapeir, the individual concerned). The noun is not common but a particular favourite of this author.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 February 2008@05:45:55.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (typo, status) on 8 February 2008@11:25:11.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2) on 10 February 2008@04:54:01.
David Whitehead on 21 November 2012@07:52:49.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 22 November 2012@23:39:22.

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