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Headword: *)efista/menos
Adler number: epsilon,3933
Translated headword: halting
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he] lingering, walking leisurely.
"He marched, halting now and then. And however long he brought the main part of the army to a halt, that was how long a time the halt would be throughout the whole army."[2]
Greek Original:
*)efista/menos: a)name/nwn, sxolai/ws badi/zwn. o( de\ e)poreu/eto a)/llote kai\ a)/llote e)fista/menos. o(/son d' a)\n xro/non to\ h(gou/menon tou= strateu/matos e)pisth=|, tosou=ton a)na/gkh xro/non di' o(/lou tou= strateu/matos gi/nesqai th\n e)pi/stasin.
Notes:
[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is present middle participle, masculine nominative singular, of e)fi/sthmi.
[2] Xenophon, Anabasis 2.4.26 (on Klearchos).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 6 February 2008@21:07:54.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 7 February 2008@05:29:16.
David Whitehead on 19 November 2012@07:47:13.

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