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Headword:
*)ena/ptontes
Adler number: epsilon,1123
Translated headword: tying on
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they] binding out.[1] "They secured the rafts with the cables [projecting] from the earth, tying them on to those trees which had grown along the brink, with a view to [the structure] remaining steady".[2]
Greek Original:*)ena/ptontes: e)kdesmou=ntes. h)sfali/zonto de\ ta\s sxedi/as toi=s a)po\ th=s gh=s e)pigu/ois ei)s ta\ peri\ to\ xei=los pefuko/ta tw=n de/ndrwn e)na/ptontes pro\s to\ summe/nein.
Notes:
[1] The headword is present participle, nominative masculine plural, of the verb
e)na/ptw; extracted from the quotation given.
[2]
Polybius 3.46.3 (describing the way Hannibal’s army let the elephants cross the Rhone); but the original has not 'the rafts' but 'the side facing the current' (
th\n d’ a)po\ tou= r(eu/matos pleura/n). See again at
epsilon 2276.
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 31 August 2005@18:25:11.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (tweaked headword and translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 1 September 2005@06:57:29.
David Whitehead (x-ref; tweak) on 17 September 2007@07:14:07.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 22 August 2012@04:14:38.
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