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Headword:
*)efo/roun
Adler number: epsilon,3954
Translated headword: they were conveying
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they were bringing.
Thucydides [writes]: "they were conveying to the place wood and stones and earth and whatever else the piling on of which was likely to complete it".[1]
*)efo/roun: e)ko/mizon. *qoukudi/dhs: e)fo/roun de\ th\n u(/lhn ei)s au)to\ kai\ li/qous kai\ gh=n kai\ ei)/ ti a)/llo a)nu/tein me/lloi e)piballo/menon.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given; if so, it is third person plural rather than first person singular.
[1]
Thucydides 2.75.2 (web address 1), on the Spartan investment of Plataea in 429 BCE.
Thucydides uses the imperfect tense here to make the scene he was describing more vivid.
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Translated by: Tony Natoli on 8 January 2003@00:45:53.
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