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Headword:
*loga/dhn
Adler number: lambda,636
Translated headword: picked
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] select.[1]
Thucydides [writes]: "not having stone-working tools of iron but carrying stones picked, they fitted each one at random."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'picked stones'. "Created from picked stones."[3] That is, from cheap and small ones.
*loga/dhn: e)pile/ktws. *qoukudi/dhs: sidh/ria liqourgika\ ou)k e)/xontes, loga/dhn fe/rontes tou\s li/qous cuneti/qesan, w(s e(/kasto/n ti cumbai/noi. kai\ *loga/des li/qoi. e)k loga/dwn li/qwn e)ktisme/nos. toute/sti tw=n eu)telw=n kai\ mikrw=n.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica: see the references at
Photius lambda371 Theodoridis. Both headword and gloss are actually adverbs, but English equivalents are not easy to think of. In any case the headword in contexts like the ones quoted here (for a different one see
Plutarch,
Otho 6.4, of picked troops) implied not a choice of the best but resort to what could,
faute de mieux, be picked up and put to use.
[2]
Thucydides 4.4.2 (web address 1), on the construction of the fort at
Pylos. See also 4.31.2, 6.66.2 (web addresses 2 and 3).
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 5.1.11; on the rock tower, made from unhewn stones, in which the Persian rebel Zadesprates (cf.
alpha 3373) took shelter; cf. de Boor (189) and Whitby (133).
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: architecture; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 July 2001@08:10:02.
Vetted by:Elizabeth Vandiver (Added links; added italics; cosmetics; set status) on 19 November 2003@16:18:31.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 1 July 2004@09:28:38.
David Whitehead on 21 April 2013@07:43:18.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@15:01:41.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 23 April 2025@10:35:33.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3; added bibliography, cross-reference, and keyword) on 24 April 2025@10:41:23.
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