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Headword: *)ene/keinto
Adler number: epsilon,1228
Translated headword: they were persisting, they were pressing hard
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] they were occupying themselves persistently.[1] "If of course anything was lacking, they were seizing it and persisting in the siege."[2]
Greek Original:
*)ene/keinto: e)pimo/nws h)sxolou=nto. ei) dh/ ti e)le/leipto, a(rpasa/menoi e)ne/keinto th=| poliorki/a|.
Notes:
[1] For the verb e)/gkeimai see already epsilon 96. Its form here -- third person plural, imperfect -- is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 April 2007@00:32:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; typo and other cosmetics) on 8 April 2007@04:27:32.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; more keywords; tweaks) on 14 March 2011@10:51:53.
David Whitehead on 23 August 2012@10:00:38.
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