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Headword: *)eformei=n
Adler number: epsilon,3949
Translated headword: to watch
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
['To watch' is a term used] in ambushing. So Demosthenes in [the] Philippics [sc. uses the verb].[1]
But 'to lie in wait' [is done] in boats.[2]
Greek Original:
*)eformei=n: e)n tw=| e)fedreu/ein. ou(/tw *dhmosqe/nhs e)n *filippikoi=s. e)nedreu/ein de\ e)n ploi/ois.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., with an addendum
[1] Demosthenes 3.7.
[2] In the Greek the distinction -- dubious, in substance -- is between the verbs e)fedreu/ein and, now, e)nedreu/ein.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 November 2000@08:59:00.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (augmented notes, inserted betacode) on 27 July 2003@17:34:29.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 28 July 2003@04:27:38.
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