"There were mountains full of all kinds of wild beasts; moving through [the mountains] in circles the soldiers killed many of the beasts."
*)orgmeu/ontes: h)=san de\ o)/rh pantoi/wn qhri/wn a)na/plea, a(\ kata\ ku/klous o)rgmeu/ontes oi( stratiw=tai polla\ tw=n qhri/wn h(/|roun.
Küster emended the headword participle (masculine nominative plural) to
o)gmeu/ontes both times (cf.
o)/gmos at
omicron 26), but Adler notes that Hemsterhuys defended the manuscript reading, comparing
Hesychius omicron1378 s.v.
o)rxmai/.
The ultimate source of the quotation is unknown, but it was transmitted via the excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus.
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