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Headword: *korunhfo/roi
Adler number: kappa,2127
Translated headword: club-bearers
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning the men] who had wooden clubs and followed behind the king/emperor.
Greek Original:
*korunhfo/roi: oi(\ cu/lwn koru/nas e)/xontes ei(/ponto tw=| basilei= o)/pisqen.
Note:
A late-antique paraphrase -- and unintentionally amusing, as such -- of Herodotus 1.59.5, on the bodyguard awarded to the C6 BCE Athenian tyrant Peisistratos (pi 1474) after his faked assassination attempt; web address 1.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 September 2001@03:32:25.
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Elizabeth Vandiver (Added link; set status) on 23 October 2003@16:42:14.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 24 October 2003@03:52:46.
David Whitehead on 13 March 2013@07:22:43.
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