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Headword: *)apourw/santas
Adler number: alpha,3625
Translated headword: having followed a foul wind
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Polybius [writes]: "then having followed a foul wind into the [harbour of] Myndus they anchored."[1] Not using a favourable wind.
Greek Original:
*)apourw/santas: *polu/bios: to/te me\n e)s th\n *mundi/an a)pourw/santas kaqormisqh=nai. mh\ xrwme/nous ou)ri/w| pneu/mati.
Notes:
The headword -- aorist participle, masculine accusative plural, of a)pouro/w -- is extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Polybius 16.15.4. The Loeb translator, W.R. Paton, misunderstands the sense of the verb here ("favoured by the wind"); see rather LSJ s.v. (web address 1) and Walbank's commentary ad loc.
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Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 July 2001@07:11:21.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 5 July 2001@08:36:11.
Catharine Roth (added link) on 5 July 2001@13:44:41.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 8 April 2012@09:55:54.
David Whitehead on 30 August 2015@04:13:38.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 10 October 2015@23:53:07.
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