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Headword: *kentri/sas to\n i(/ppon
Adler number: kappa,1341
Translated headword: goading the horse
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[no gloss]
Greek Original:
*kentri/sas to\n i(/ppon.
Note:
This unglossed headword phrase, evidently used of a man, only occurs in Byzantine authors. (For something close, but perhaps not close enough, see Polyaenus 7.41.1: a Parthian groom kentri/sas e)peta/xune tou= i(/ppou to\n dro/mon.) The only instance which may predate Suda is Leo the Deacon p.26: "When the general [Nicephorus Phocas] saw this, goading his horse and speeding up on the way, he drove through and walled up the soldiers' rush. He persuaded them not to kill the men who cast down their arms..."
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Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 31 October 2008@09:20:03.
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David Whitehead (addition to note; modified keywords; cosmetics) on 31 October 2008@09:39:24.
David Whitehead on 18 February 2013@06:07:35.

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