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Headword:
*bri=qos
Adler number: beta,540
Translated headword: weight
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [bri=qos means the same as] ba/ros.[1]
"[It was] impossible to take the towers, for they could neither be easily overturned because of their weight, nor be burned because of the iron [plating]."[2]
And elsewhere: "he took an iron-weighted club in his right hand."[3]
Greek Original:*bri=qos: ba/ros. tou\s pu/rgous a)mh/xanon e(lei=n, mh/te a)natraph=nai r(a|di/ws dia\ to\ bri=qos, mh/t' e)mprhsqh=nai dia\ to\n si/dhron. kai\ au)=qis: sidhrobriqe/s t' e)/labe decia=| cu/lon.
Notes:
[1] A relatively rare word meaning weight is glossed by a commonplace one. For
bri=qos cf.
beta 539,
beta 541,
beta 542.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Josephus,
Jewish War 5.297 (web address 1). See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXIII.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1402,
Euripides speaking (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture; tragedy
Translated by: Sean M. Redmond on 8 October 2001@20:43:57.
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