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Headword: *skemmou/s
Adler number: sigma,557
Translated headword: considerations
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] deliberations, observations. "To this man I/they sought to disclose the considerations of the king/emperor".[1]
Greek Original:
*skemmou/s: boula/s, ske/yeis. tou/tw| de\ tou= basile/ws katemh/nuon tou\s skemmou/s.
Notes:
The accusative plural headword is evidently extracted from the quotation given. These are the only extant instances of the masculine noun skemmo/s, registered by LSJ s.v. as a late variant of the feminine noun ske/yis (the second glossing term here).
[1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 September 2013@08:16:38.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (raised status) on 20 September 2013@11:43:46.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; note typo) on 20 September 2013@11:46:46.
David Whitehead on 29 December 2013@07:40:43.
David Whitehead on 26 May 2016@04:18:30.

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