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Headword: *)orgmeu/ontes
Adler number: omicron,518
Translated headword: moving in a line (?)
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"There were mountains full of all kinds of wild beasts; moving through [the mountains] in circles the soldiers killed many of the beasts."
Greek Original:
*)orgmeu/ontes: h)=san de\ o)/rh pantoi/wn qhri/wn a)na/plea, a(\ kata\ ku/klous o)rgmeu/ontes oi( stratiw=tai polla\ tw=n qhri/wn h(/|roun.
Notes:
Küster emended the headword participle (masculine nominative plural) to o)gmeu/ontes both times (cf. o)/gmos at omicron 26), but Adler notes that Hemsterhuys defended the manuscript reading, comparing Hesychius omicron1378 s.v. o)rxmai/.
The ultimate source of the quotation is unknown, but it was transmitted via the excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus.
Keywords: geography; historiography; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 February 2010@01:35:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 26 February 2010@03:27:57.
David Whitehead on 7 July 2013@07:14:01.

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