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Headword: *sfh/las
Adler number: sigma,1736
Translated headword: having tripped
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he] having thrown down, having dashed to the ground. "Having tripped the fellow to the ground -- despite the help he had received from his friends -- this man himself returned again to the Romans."[1]
Greek Original:
*sfh/las: katabalw/n, prosoudi/sas. o( de\ sfh/las e)pi\ th\n gh=n to\n a)/nqrwpon, e)pibohqhsa/ntwn e)kei/nw| tw=n oi)kei/wn, ou(=tos au)to\s pa/lin e)panh=lqe pro\s tou\s *(rwmai/ous.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of verb sfa/llw (sigma 1716, cf. sigma 1737).
[1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. Adler notes, but does not follow, the emendation of ou(=tos to ou(/tws in the editio princeps.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 June 2014@04:41:46.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (expanded primary note, set status) on 6 June 2014@10:07:25.
David Whitehead (further expansion of notes) on 6 June 2014@10:12:44.

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