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Headword:
*)egkatele/ghsan
li/qoi
Adler number: epsilon,77
Translated headword: stones were laid in
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning were built in.[1]
And
Homer [writes]: "and laying dry-stone walls."[2]
*)egkatele/ghsan li/qoi: a)nti\ tou= e)gkatw|kodomh/qhsan. kai\ *(/omhros: ai(masia/s te le/gwn.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.93.2, where the phrase
li/qoi ei)rgasme/noi e)gkatele/ghsan ("prepared stones were laid in") occurs in the description of the Themistoclean rebuilding of the walls of
Athens in 479 BCE; cf.
delta 625.
[2]
Homer Odyssey 18.359. For the verb in this sense, "picking out stones for building walls", see LSJ s.v.
le/gw A.1.
Translated by: Marta Steele on 23 July 2006@17:05:00.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (rearranged translation, modified notes, set status) on 23 July 2006@18:05:51.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 24 July 2006@04:18:14.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 24 July 2012@08:22:06.
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