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Headword:
*koile/mbolon
Adler number: kappa,2540
Translated headword: hollow-wedge
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This is the term [for] when the twin-faced twin-phalanx joins together the following wings but separates the leading [ones].
Greek Original:*koile/mbolon kalei=tai, e)peida\n h( di/stomos difalaggi/a ta\ me\n e(po/mena ke/rata suna/yh|, ta\ de\ h(gou/mena diasth/sh|.
Notes:
cf. Arrian,
Tactica 29.7,
Aelian,
Tactica 37.7, and the tactical lexicon at the back of the Suda. All three read "face-to-face" (
a)nti/stomos) versus the Suda's "twin-faced" (
di/stomos) which is probably a dictation error.
See also
Asclepiodotus 11.5 for the cognate adjective
koile/mbolos ("hollow-wedged" sc. phalanx).
Translated by: William Hutton on 10 June 2008@02:10:26.
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