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Headword:
*)embele/s
Adler number: epsilon,945
Translated headword: within missile-range
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Archimedes "prepared machines for every distance within missile-range, [so damaging] from afar those who were sailing in with the more powerful and large [stone-throwers and catapults]; and when these shot too high, with the smaller ones."[1]
Greek Original:*)embele/s: o( de\ *)arximh/dhs pareskeua/sato o)/rgana pro\s a(/pan e)mbele\s dia/sthma, po/rrwqen me\n e)piple/ontas toi=s eu)tonwte/rois kai\ mei/zosin: o(/te de\ tau=q' u(perpeth= gi/gnoito, toi=s e)la/ttosin.
Notes:
The headword, neuter singular of this adjective, is presumably extracted from the quotation given
[1]
Polybius 8.5.2-3 (here abridged) on the celebrated Roman siege of Syracuse (213-211 BCE), for which see also
alpha 2797,
epsilon 2907,
sigma 669.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 May 2003@08:47:27.
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