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Headword:
*)epi\
*leiyudri/w|
ma/xh
Adler number: epsilon,2440
Translated headword: a battle at Leipsydrion
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. Leipsydrion is] a place above [Mount]
Parnes,[1] which was fortified by those in exile from the tyrants, led by the Alkmaionids.[2] They were captured by Peisistratos[3] after a siege, and a drinking-song was sung about them: "woe woe Leipsydion betrayer-of-comrades, what men you have slain, good in battle and nobly born, when they showed what fathers they had".
*)epi\ *leiyudri/w| ma/xh: xwri/on u(pe\r th=s *pa/rnhqos, o(\ e)tei/xisan oi( fuga/des tw=n tura/nnwn, w(=n oi( *)alkmaioni/dai proesth/kesan. e)kpoliorkhqe/ntwn d' au)tw=n u(po\ tw=n peri\ *peisi/straton, skolio\n ei)s au)tou\s h)/|deto: ai)\ ai)\ *leiyu/drion prodwse/tairon, oi(/ous a)/ndras a)pw/le- sas, ma/xesqai d' a)gaqou/s ge kai\ eu)patri/das, o(po/t' e)/deican, oi(/wn pate/rwn e)/san.
Notes:
The headword phrase, although not described as such here, was proverbial: see
Apostolius 7.70, where it is glossed as 'in reference to those involved in a brave struggle'.
For the rest of the present material cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 15.695E (15.50 Kaibel).
[1] In Attica:
pi 680,
pi 681.
[2] In the late sixth century BCE. For the Alkmaionids see generally
alpha 1292.
[3]
pi 1474.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 November 2000@06:50:32.
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