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Headword:
*)/exoun
Adler number: epsilon,4037
Translated headword: they were mounding
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they were heaping.[1] "And out of this some were mounding, the others fighting back against the throwers."[2]
And elsewhere: "and they were mounding 2 mounds, [one?] on each side, as against the wall. The bricks from the houses became a bond of the mound".[3]
Greek Original:*)/exoun: e)xw/nnuon. ka)k tou/tou oi( me\n e)/xoun, oi( de\ toi=s ba/llousin a)ntema/xonto. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ xw/mata b# e(kate/rwqen e)/xoun, w(s pro\s to\ tei=xos. cu/ndesmos de\ tou= xw/matos ai( pli/nqoi e)gi/nonto ai( e)k tw=n oi)kiw=n.
Notes:
[1] If, as it seems reasonable to suppose, the headword is extracted from the quotations which follow, it is third person plural (rather than the identical first person singular), imperfect, of
xo/w. For the glossing verb see under
chi 430.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3] Arrian,
Parthica fr.95.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 February 2008@08:06:09.
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