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Headword: *si=ta
Adler number: sigma,491
Translated headword: grain-rations, provisions
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"After a second day from the departure for war Philopoimen announced [sc. his intention] to make the two grain-rations three when he wished to add a single day; and sometimes the two, four".[1]
Greek Original:
*si=ta: o(/ti *filopoi/mhn meta\ deute/ran h(me/ran a)po\ th=s pro\s po/lemon e)co/dou parh/ggeile ta\ b# si=ta tri/a poiei=n, o(/te bou/loito mi/an h(me/ran proslabei=n: pote\ de\ ta\ du/o, te/ttara.
Notes:
The unglossed headword si=ta, which occurs in the quotation given, is the heteroclite plural of si=tos (sigma 502, sigma 503); cf. alpha 3722, epsilon 427, sigma 1679.
[1] Polybius fr. 218. For Philopoimen see generally phi 409. Adler notes that Valesius (Henri de Valois) emended pot\e 'sometimes' to o(/te 'when' (also omitting ta\ 'the').
Keywords: biography; botany; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 January 2014@09:14:41.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (expanded note, set status) on 21 January 2014@18:35:43.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note; tweaking) on 22 January 2014@03:42:50.

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