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Headword:
*)/afippa
xwri/a
Adler number: alpha,4621
Translated headword: horseless places, places impossible for horses
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones] in which it is not possible to ride a horse.[1]
"He turned away to the difficult and steep and impossible-for-horses [places]."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the the masculine nominative plural] a)/fippoi ["horseless"], [meaning] without horses. "They were very afraid because they were in a deserted place and especially because they were now horseless."[3] Meaning on foot.[4]
Greek Original:*)/afippa xwri/a: e)n oi(=s a)\n mh\ e)/stin i(ppa/sasqai. o( de\ e)kkli/nei pro\s ta\ du/sxwra/ te kai\ a)na/nth kai\ a)/fippa. kai\ *)/afippoi, xwri\s i(/ppwn. perideei=s de\ h)=san w(s e)n e)rhmi/a| ta/ te a)/lla kai\ a)/fippoi geno/menoi. a)nti\ tou= pezoi/.
Notes:
[1] For this headword phrase, a neuter plural, see
delta 1614.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 5.10.1.
[3]
Iamblichus,
Babyloniaca fr. 21 Habrich.
[4] For another technical meaning of
a)/fippoi, see
iota 546.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 June 2001@22:43:05.
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