[Meaning] they lie in ambush.[1] "They position ambushes in the advantageous positions of the area."[2]
*)egkaqi/zousin: e)nedreu/ousin. oi( de\ e)gkaqi/zousi lo/xous e)n toi=s e)pikai/rois tw=n xwri/wn to/pois.
Headword and gloss are in the present indicative, third person plural. For the headword verb,
e)gkaqi/zw, see generally LSJ s.v., illustrating its military and other senses.
[1] Despite Adler's marginal indication ('Thdr.'), there is no necessary connection with Theodoret (
epsilon 65,
epsilon 67). Rather, what is being glossed here might be
Philochorus FGrH 328 F108 (the only extant instance of
e)gkaqi/zousin as opposed to
e)gkaqi/zousi), from the
scholia to
Euripides,
Hippolytus 35: the Pallantidai do this at Gargettos (but Theseus eludes them). More probably though, the verb is extracted, and modified in this minor respect, from the quotation given: see next note.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler, but it is
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 9.20.2 (probably via a lost part of the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti); again in part at
epsilon 2358.
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