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Headword:
*kataqrw/skonta
Adler number: kappa,562
Translated headword: leaping down
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] jumping down.[1]
Herodotus [writes]: "but [the Parians say that] in leaping down from the dry-stone wall he wrenched his thigh."[2]
*kataqrw/skonta: kataphdw=nta. *(hro/dotos: kataqrw/skonta de\ th\n ai(masih\n to\n mhro\n spasqh=nai.
Notes:
cf. generally
kappa 931.
[1] The headword is present participle of
kataqrw/skw, either neuter nominative/accusative plural or masculine accusative singular; the latter if, as is highly likely, it is extracted from the quotation given below.
[2]
Herodotus 6.134.2 (web address 1), on Miltiades (
mu 1067,
mu 1068) injuring himself -- fatally, as it turned out -- during his siege of
Paros in 490/89.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 April 2008@11:05:23.
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