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Headword:
*)apeka/qhto
Adler number: alpha,2986
Translated headword: sat apart
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] was sitting away from.
"Scipio sat apart by a pyramid watching the deserters and their senselessness."[1]
Greek Original:*)apeka/qhto: e)kaqe/zeto. o( de\ *skipi/wn a)peka/qhto pro/s tini purami/di qewrw=n tou\s au)tomo/lous kai\ th\n tou/twn a)po/noian.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given. (There are no other attestations.)
[1]
Polybius fr. 115 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 530) that Valckenaer attributed this fragment to
Polybius. Walbank suggests (p. 752) that this fragment refers to Scipio
Aemilianus (
alphaiota 199; cf. OCD(4) s.v. Cornelius Scipio
Aemilianus, pp. 381-382) witnessing the fall of Carthage (146 BCE); cf.
Polybius 38.20.4 (Walbank, pp. 720-721).
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, (Oxford 1979)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 December 2000@00:13:42.
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