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Headword: *suneba/llonto
Adler number: sigma,1469
Translated headword: they were giving contributions
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] they were providing. "Consequently the Hellespontine cities were also giving him contributions for the maintenance of the troops".[1]
Greek Original:
*suneba/llonto: parei=xon. w(/ste kai\ suneba/llonto au)tw=| ei)s th\n trofh\n tw=n stratiwtw=n ai( *(ellhspontiakai\ po/leis.
Notes:
The headword -- presumably extracted from the quotation given (though also attested in e.g. Herodotus 7.142.2 and Herodian 1.14.6) -- is imperfect indicative middle, third person plural, of the verb sumba/llw. See generally LSJ s.v., and cf. sigma 1354, sigma 1355, sigma 1356.
[1] Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.9, describing how Clearchus, based in the Chersonese, secretly raised a mercenary army for Cyrus in c.402-401. The original text has xrh/mata before suneba/llonto au)tw|=: "they gave him contributions of money".
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: Philip Rance on 10 February 2012@02:48:46.
Vetted by:
Philip Rance (added notes) on 10 February 2012@03:11:41.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 10 February 2012@03:35:22.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 3 January 2014@04:08:31.

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