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Headword: *)es o(/ti ma/lista
Adler number: epsilon,3167
Translated headword: to the greatest [extent]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning very much.[1] "[They collected] reeds [...] as stiff and as thick as possible."[2]
Greek Original:
*)es o(/ti ma/lista: a)nti\ tou= li/an. kala/mous e)s o(/ti ma/lista sterrou\s kai\ paxi/stous.
Notes:
[1] cf. epsilon 3166.
[2] An abridgement of Agathias, Histories 5.21 (21.7 at p.191.20-22 Keydell). In 559 CE, the Kotrigur Huns begin building reed boats for an amphibious assault on the Thracian Chersonese (the present-day Gallipoli Peninsula; cf. chi 215); see Frendo (158) and, for further context, alpha 1017, alpha 2798, gamma 304, epsilon 1506, and kappa 2274.
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: botany; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 January 2008@00:38:55.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 19 January 2008@06:10:04.
David Whitehead on 31 October 2012@07:44:38.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 4 November 2012@23:54:04.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 16 February 2016@03:40:15.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 26 October 2023@10:28:54.
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