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Headword:
*po/plios
*skipi/wn
*)afrikano/s
Adler number: pi,2056
Translated headword: Publius Scipio Africanus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Publius Scipio Africanus,] finding the army in a decrepit state, resurrected it. [It was he] who also demolished Carthage down to its foundations. [It is said that] the hilt of his sword foretold the end of the war to him; blood flowed from it in profusion, and however many times they wiped it off it always emitted more blood. The seers interpreted the omen to indicate an enormous massacre of the enemy.
Greek Original:*po/plios *skipi/wn *)afrikano/s, th\n stratia\n eu(rw\n diefqarme/nhn e)panw/rqwsen. o(\s kai\ th\n *karxhdo/na ei)s e)/dafos kaqei=le. proshma=nai de\ au)tw=| tou= pole/mou to\ pe/ras th\n tou= ci/fous labh/n, ai(/mati pollw=| r(eome/nhn kai\ polla/kis me\n a)pomattome/nhn, ple/on de\ a)niei=san a)ei\ tou= ai(/matos: tou\s ga\r ma/nteis polu\n fo/non tw=n e)nanti/wn shmai/nein to\ te/ras u(pokri/nasqai.
Notes:
Material not identified by Adler but nowadays ascribed to John of
Antioch (fr. 135 Roberto).
On Scipio see already, in brief, under
pi 2055.
Translated by: William Hutton on 14 January 2013@23:58:01.
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