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Headword:
*katacaino/menoi
Adler number: kappa,683
Translated headword: being carded
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they] being scourged.[1] "The men being carded with blows by their leaders and being killed outside by their enemies chose the quickest death [at the hands] of the barbarians in preference to the [death which was] unlawful and very brutal and very lingering and having a painful [extent of] time."[2]
Greek Original:*katacaino/menoi: mastizo/menoi. plhgai=s katacaino/menoi u(po\ tw=n a)rxo/ntwn oi( a)/nqrwpoi kai\ e)/cwqen u(po\ tw=n polemi/wn a)nairou/menoi th\n e(toimota/thn tw=n barba/rwn h(|rou=nto teleuth\n pro\ th=s e)kqe/smou te kai\ a)selgesta/ths parateinou/shs te kai\ to\n o)dunhro\n e)xou/shs xro/non.
Notes:
[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is present middle/passive participle of
katacai/nw, masculine nominative plural. For the verb see also
kappa 681,
kappa 682,
kappa 684.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler tentatively attributed it to
Eunapius.)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 July 2008@01:22:49.
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