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Headword:
*)akro/polis
Adler number: alpha,1015
Translated headword: acropolis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Damascius [writes]: "for the most prominent of the fortresses have, by and large, a shared nature. One would recognize what is being said from what happens where acropoleis are concerned. For while these seem to function largely as security of [= from] enemies[1] -- when there are any -- and as a safeguard of freedom, they do also often lead to slavery and evil conspiracies, as
Polybius says".[2]
Greek Original:*)akro/polis: *dama/skios: ta\ ga\r e)pifane/stata tw=n o)xurwma/twn w(s e)pi/pan koinh\n e)/xei th\n fu/sin. gnoi/h d' a)/n tis to\ lego/menon e)k tw=n peri\ ta\s a)kropo/leis sumbaino/ntwn. au(=tai ga\r dokou=si me\n mega/la sumba/llesqai pro\s a)sfa/leian tw=n polemi/wn, e)n oi(=s a)\n w)=si, kai\ pro\s th\n th=s e)leuqeri/as fulakh/n, gi/nontai de\ kai\ polla/kis ai)/tiai doulei/as kai\ kakw=n o(mologoume/nwn, w(/s fhsi *polu/bios.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras.
[1] Adler notes, but does not adopt, the attractive emendation (Küster, Schweighäuser) of
polemi/wn 'enemies' to
po/lewn 'cities' here.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 302 Zintzen (308 Asmus), citing
Polybius fr. 4.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 March 2000@17:10:42.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 17 January 2001@08:31:49.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 5 June 2002@08:22:20.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 1 February 2012@07:12:38.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; another note) on 28 March 2014@10:39:43.
Catharine Roth (added title) on 16 May 2015@00:33:54.
Ronald Allen (cosmeticule (name spelling) n.1, cosmeticule n.2) on 9 May 2018@22:42:33.
Ronald Allen (cosmeticule) on 2 August 2018@20:47:35.
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