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Headword:
Eneillontes
Adler number: epsilon,1282
Translated headword: packing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Thucydides [writes]: "packing clay in baskets of reed they began inserting them into the breach in the wall".[1]
Greek Original:Eneillontes: Thoukudidês: en tarsois kalamou pêlon eneillontes eseballon es to diêirêmenon tou teichous.
Notes:
The unglossed headword participle
e)nei/llontes is extracted from the quotation given -- where however it is spelled
e)ni/llontes. Same -ei- spelling under
epsiloniota 109 and
tau 130.
[1]
Thucydides 2.76.1 (on the Peloponnesian siege of
Plataiai, 429 BCE): web address 1.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 November 2000@09:29:10.
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