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Headword: *)akaqai/retos
Adler number: alpha,777
Translated headword: impregnable, irrefragable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] indestructible.
"Impregnable tower".[1]
Greek Original:
*)akaqai/retos: a)kata/blhtos. pu/rgos a)kaqai/retos.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras.
[1] If this phrase is the quotation is appears to be, it is unidentifiable. (But the glossing word, a)kata/blhtos, is used of towers in a scholion to Euripides, Hecuba 1.)
Keywords: architecture; definition; military affairs; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 January 2000@23:09:26.
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David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 23 May 2002@07:05:14.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 22 January 2012@08:11:15.
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