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Headword: *troxa/zein
Adler number: tau,1066
Translated headword: to proceed at the double
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to run.[1]
Polybius [writes]: "during the first day he ordered [the troops] to proceed at the double for 30 stades, in armour".[2]
Greek Original:
*troxa/zein: diatre/xein. *polu/bios: th\n me\n prw/thn h(me/ran e)ke/leue troxa/zein e)pi\ l# stadi/ous e)n toi=s o(/plois.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2] Polybius 10.20.2, on Scipio at New Carthage: web address 1.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; clothing; definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 November 2001@07:33:02.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 14 November 2004@00:30:33.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 14 November 2004@05:50:34.
David Whitehead on 15 August 2011@08:05:15.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 10 October 2013@00:22:12.
David Whitehead on 16 January 2014@03:46:34.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 16 October 2022@22:43:06.

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