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Headword:
*au)lw=nes
Adler number: alpha,4449
Translated headword: hollows
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] canyons, or flat places in the vicinity of mountains.[1]
"He set up a camp, seizing a certain hollow between his own camp and that of the enemy."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related participle, here feminine] au)lwni/zousa ["hollowing"], [meaning] spending the night in a hollow.[3]
Greek Original:*au)lw=nes: fa/ragges, h)\ to/poi platei=s peri\ ta\ o)/rh. o( de\ katestratope/deuse, labw\n au)lw=na/ tina metacu\ th=s au(tou= kai\ tw=n polemi/wn stratopedei/as. kai\ *au)lwni/zousa, e)n au)lw=ni dia/gousa.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar material in other lexica. For no very obvious reason Latte on
Hesychius claims the headword, nominative plural, as generated by an instance of the accusative plural in the
Septuagint.
[2]
Polybius 11.32.1 (Scipio Africanus in
Spain, 206 BCE).
[3] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere, but not independently attested.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 23 March 2002@15:39:19.
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