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Headword:
*)eni/esan
Adler number: epsilon,1338
Translated headword: they were sending in
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they threw in.[1]
"And onto the towers they were sending in fire."[2]
Greek Original:*)eni/esan: e)ne/balon. kai\ toi=s pu/rgois pu=r e)ni/esan.
Notes:
The headword is third person plural, imperfect active, of
e)ni/hmi. perhaps (though not necessarily) extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
[2]
Polybius fr. 137 Büttner-Wobst (context unknown). Büttner-Wobst notes (532) that Gronovius (Jakob Gronow, 1645-1716) attributed this fragment to
Polybius.
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 October 2005@01:09:40.
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