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Headword:
*)epibath/ria
Adler number: epsilon,2229
Translated headword: mounting-devices
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the machines [used] on top of walls. "He brought forward the machines: wooden towers and "tortoises", and whatever else served as walls' mounting-devices."[1]
Greek Original:*)epibath/ria: ta\ e)pi\ tw=n teixw=n mhxanh/mata. o( de\ ta\s mhxana\s e)ph=ge, pu/rgous culi/nous kai\ xelw/nas, kai\ o(/sa teixw=n e)pibath/ria.
Notes:
The neuter plural headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given, where it is accusative case.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable. The headword is otherwise attested in this military sense only in
Josephus,
Jewish War 3.278 and in Leon of
Byzantium,
De stratagematibus 270. For "tortoises" in this applied sense see under
chi 190.
Translated by: William Hutton on 26 October 2007@11:16:41.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented n.1 and keywords; cosmetics) on 28 October 2007@06:12:58.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; tweaking) on 10 October 2012@07:38:51.
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