Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for pi,1338 in Adler number:
Headword:
*peri/fasis
Adler number: pi,1338
Translated headword: open view
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Polybius [writes]: "he ordered them to inform him of everything that was happening by fire-signals [sent] to Tisaion; this is a mountain in Thessaly, favourably situated for open views of the above-mentioned places".
Greek Original:*peri/fasis: *polu/bios: e)ke/leuse diasafei=n au)tw=| pa/nta ta\ gino/mena dia\ tw=n pursw=n e)pi\ to\ *ti/saion: e)/sti de\ th=s *qettali/as o)/ros, eu)fuw=s kei/menon pro\s ta\s tw=n proeirhme/nwn to/pwn perifa/seis.
Notes:
Polybius 10.42.7-8, on Philip V in 208 BC (web address 1).
Mt Tisaion (present-day Bardhzogia) actually lies at the southern tip of the Magnesian peninsula. For fire-signals there cf.
Polyaenus 6.2.1.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 October 2001@05:12:11.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search