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Headword:
*koni/stra
Adler number: kappa,2043
Translated headword: arena
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Nor again to hurl the labours of an arena into it".[1]
Greek Original:*koni/stra. ou)d' au)= koni/stras ei)s to\ r(i/yai tou\s po/nous.
Notes:
For this unglossed headword, which literally means dusty place (cf.
kappa 2039,
kappa 2041), see also
kappa 2044; and cf.
alpha 2801 (=
epsilon 10) and under
sigma 569.
[1] George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias 3 fr. 13 Tartaglia. As Tartaglia notes (228-229, n.87), the Pisidian's fragments 11-13 relate to Heraclius's southward march on Persia (627-628) and his crossing of the Tauros Mountains (cf.
tau 168, Barrington Atlas map 89 grids C2-F3) in particular; cf.
alphaiota 97 for fr. 12. On Heraclius (Roman emperor 610-641), see
eta 465 generally.
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
Keywords: athletics; biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; history; imagery; military affairs; poetry; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 March 2009@06:45:41.
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