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Headword:
*)ana/ggelon
Adler number: alpha,1821
Translated headword: messenger-less
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning somewhere where] not even a messenger was left behind. "There we endured a messenger-less battle, falling one on another."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the verb] a)nagge/llw ["I report"]; [used] with a dative.[2]
Greek Original:*)ana/ggelon: mhde\ a)/ggelon kataleifqh=nai. e)/nqa ma/xhn e)/tlhmen a)na/ggelon, a)/llos e)p' a)/llon pi/ptontes. kai\ *)anagge/llw: dotikh=|.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras. The headword, evidently extracted from the quotation given, is accusative singular of the rare two-termination adjective
a)na/ggelos.
[1]
Greek Anthology 7.244.3 (
Gaetulicus), a dedication of swords from the battle of Thyrea; cf. Page (56-57) and another extract from this epigram at
theta 420. On the Battle of the Champions at Thyrea, mid-C6 BCE, see
gamma 486,
omicron 86, and
Herodotus 1.82 (web address 1).
[2] Similar entry in a syntactical lexicon.
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; history; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 May 2001@16:01:42.
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