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Headword:
*)ergasth/rion
Adler number: epsilon,2903
Translated headword: workshop
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a place] in which certain things are manufactured.[1]
Polybius [writes]: "there was no possibility -- as
Xenophon puts it -- that someone could have seen that city and not called it a workshop of war".[2]
*)ergasth/rion: e)n w(=| tina e)rga/zontai. *polu/bios: ou)k e)/sti, kata\ to\n *cenofw=nta, o(\s qeasa/menos th\n po/lin e)kei/nhn ou)k a)\n ei)=pe pole/mou e)rgasth/rion.
Notes:
[1] No equivalent glossing in other lexica.
[3]
Polybius 10.20.7. The phrase invoked comes from
Xenophon,
Agesilaus 1.26 (web address 1 -- itself an echo of
Hellenica 3.4.17), and it became quasi-proverbial; besides
Polybius, witness
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 10.421B [10.18 Kaibel].
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; proverbs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 November 2000@06:56:39.
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