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Headword:
*)akrw/nuc
Adler number: alpha,1027
Translated headword: nail-tip, mountain-top
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning both] the tip of the nail and the top of the mountain.[1] And [sc. also attested is]
a)krwnuxi/a [used] likewise.[2]
"When he happened upon a detachment guarding a position at the top of the mountain, with a sudden attack he put them to flight."[3]
There is also [sc. attested]
a)krwnuxi/a, the pinnacle of the mountain.
And
Xenophon [writes]: "but when Kheirisophos saw that the pinnacle of the mountain had already been occupied, from which was the descent into the plain [...]".[4]
"As they came closer a pinnacle of a mountain rose above [them]."[5]
*)akrw/nuc: to\ a)/kron tou= o)/nuxos kai\ to\ a)/kron tou= o)/rous. kai\ *)akrwnuxi/a o(moi/ws. o( de\ fulakh=| tini e)pi\ th=s a)krwnuxi/as e)ntuxw\n, tau/th| ai)fnidi/w| prosbolh=| e)tre/yato. e)/sti de\ kai\ *)akrwnuxi/a, h( a)krw/reia tou= o)/rous. kai\ *cenofw=n: e)pei\ de\ e(w/ra *xeiri/sofos prokateilhmme/nhn th\n a)krwnuxi/an tou= o)/rous, a)f' h(=s h( kata/basis h)=n ei)s to\ pedi/on. e)ndote/rw xwrou/ntwn a)krwnuxi/a o)/rous e)pani/stato.
Notes:
[1] From
a)/kros "high" and
o)/nuc "nail, claw, hoof";
a)krw/nuc is attested, besides here, only in ps.Herodian.
[2] At
alpha 1012, these are distinguished from
a)kro/nuc and
a)kronuxi/a with omicron.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[4] Quoted approximately from
Xenophon,
Anabasis 3.4.37-38 (see web address 1); compare also
Xenophon,
Hellenica 4.6.7.
[5] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; imagery; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2001@19:18:44.
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