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Headword:
*kataqeme/nous
Adler number: kappa,549
Translated headword: having laid down
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning them] having thrown off.[1]
"[He said that] they would not gain access to him before having laid down their arms."[2]
Greek Original:*kataqeme/nous: a)pobalo/ntas. mh\ pro/teron th=s ei)s au)to\n ei)so/dou tuxei=n h)\ kataqeme/nous ta\ o(/pla.
Notes:
[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is aorist middle participle, masculine accusative plural, of
katati/qhmi.
[2] A close approximation of part of
Menander Protector fr. 10.5 Blockley (126-127), Sarosius (cf.
chi 167 note) insists that the Turkish envoys in Zemarchus's entourage disarm before the Alan king receives them (571-572). For the (long-established) idiom illustrated here, see LSJ s.v., II. On Zemarchus see
alpha 2962 note. Find further excerpts from this fragment at
epsilon 2306,
mu 1114, and
chi 167.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 18 May 2008@21:41:13.
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