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Headword: *periparh=nai
Adler number: pi,1239
Translated headword: to have been spitted
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to have been pierced.
"The Romans deployed underwater pikes, so that the oncoming vessels of the barbarians were spitted".[1]
Greek Original:
*periparh=nai: perikenthqh=nai. oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi kontou\s e)/phcan u(pobruxi/ous, w(/ste ta\ ska/fh tw=n barba/rwn e)lqo/nta periparh=nai.
Notes:
The headword, aorist passive infinitive of the verb peripei/rw, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable (but seemingly connected with the first one given at pi 2874, q.v.).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 August 2010@05:43:50.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 6 August 2010@11:44:31.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note) on 8 August 2010@04:45:19.
David Whitehead (expanded headword and primary note) on 25 September 2011@09:23:48.
David Whitehead on 26 September 2013@06:56:31.
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