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Headword:
*)apodasmo/n
Adler number: alpha,3278
Translated headword: division
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a certain portion. "The general singled out one particular division of the army and ordered it to proceed ahead."[1]
And elsewhere: "[... and if any] division of the Saracens proceeded into Persian territory and foraged in certain parts of Babylonia."[2]
Greek Original:*)apodasmo/n: moi=ra/n tina. o( de\ strathgo\s a)podasmo/n tina tou= stratou= a)pole/cas e)keleu/eto proporeu/esqai. kai\ au)=qis: e)k tw=n *sarakhnw=n a)podasmo\n ei)s th\n *persi/da xwrh/sas me/rh tina\ th=s *babulwni/as proenomeu/sato.
Notes:
The headword, in the accusative case, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given; it is also illustrated by the second one.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable (unless it is an extremely loose paraphrase of Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 6.4.6).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 8.1.2, abridged (and here misquoted, with the headword in the accusative; it should be nominative).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 29 December 2001@00:10:18.
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