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Headword: *lewpetri/a
Adler number: lambda,273
Translated headword: levelrock, smoothrock
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a level/smooth stone.[1]
"It is possible that they made a landing into the Chersonnese from some levelrock, out of the sea, and reached the rear of the enemy".[2]
Greek Original:
*lewpetri/a: lei=os li/qos. dunato/n e)stin a)po/ tinos lewpetri/as a)po/basin poihsame/nous e)k qala/tths ei)s th\n *xerro/nhson kata\ nw/tou gene/sqai tw=n polemi/wn.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; see the references at Photius lambda236 Theodoridis. Probably generated, as Latte on Hesychius suggests, by one of the four instances (all accusative case) in Ezechiel 24-26 LXX.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. For the Chersonnese see generally chi 215.
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 January 2009@08:32:10.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 26 January 2009@01:03:36.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 26 January 2009@03:01:20.
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Catharine Roth (coding) on 6 April 2013@00:18:19.
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