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Headword:
*qwrakei/ois
Adler number: theta,437
Translated headword: breastworks, parapets
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] bastions, railings, lorica.[1]
"Cowering beneath the breastworks, they kept still for a while."[2]
Greek Original:*qwrakei/ois: promaxw=si, drufa/ktois, lwriki/ois. me/xri me/n tinos u(popepthxo/tes toi=s qwraki/ois h)re/moun.
Notes:
[1] Same or very similar glossing in other lexica. The headword is dative plural of
theta 436 (q.v.). It is perhaps but not necessarily extracted from the quotation given (which
Photius et al. do not have); other possibilities include
Polybius 8.4.4 and
Diodorus Siculus 17.44.5.
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish War 5.318; cf.
upsilon 558.
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 26 February 2008@15:48:29.
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