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Headword: *teixio/eis
Adler number: tau,460
Translated headword: high-walled
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] fortified.[1]
Thucydides made a distinction of [= between] walls and city; and it seems more valid to apply the expression 'city' to the houses.[2]
Greek Original:
*teixio/eis: o( teteixisme/nos. *teixw=n kai\ po/lews diastolh\n e)poih/sato *qoukudi/dhs: kai\ e)/oike kuriwte/ran th=s po/lews th\n le/cin e)pi\ tw=n oi)kiw=n lamba/nein.
Notes:
[1] Ambrosian Lexicon 133 is comparable, according to Adler; and cf. also Etymologicum Magnum 756.15-18. The headword is an epic epithet.
[2] From the scholia to Thucydides 1.89.3 (where the historian does not use the headword adjective but does describe in general terms the Athenians' rebuilding of their fortifications in 479 BCE, after the Persian occupation: 'for only small portions of the circuit-wall were still standing and the majority of the houses were in ruins').
Keywords: architecture; definition; epic; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 March 2014@06:06:29.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 7 March 2014@09:55:24.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 7 March 2014@10:08:56.
David Whitehead on 28 May 2016@05:36:35.

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