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Headword:
*(istorhme/nai
Adler number: iota,696
Translated headword: being observed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they] standing for viewing.[1] "For thus they were being observed only, as artists paint images."[2]
Greek Original:*(istorhme/nai: pro\s qe/an i(sta/menai. ou(/tw ga\r h)=san i(storhme/nai mo/non, w(s zwgrafou=sin oi( grafei=s ta\s ei)ko/nas.
Notes:
[1] Present middle/passive participle of
i(store/w (cf.
iota 697), feminine nominative plural; presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2] George of
Pisidia,
On the Persian Expedition 3.46-7 Tartaglia, on the tendency of the Persian general Shahrbaraz (cf. PLRE IIIb s.v.) to hold his troops in formation for prolonged periods. The noun to which the participle relates is
parataxeis.
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
Keywords: art history; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 April 2006@19:34:15.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 20 April 2006@03:38:36.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 16 January 2013@04:00:23.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography and keyword) on 28 October 2025@12:35:45.
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