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Headword:
*oi)sui/+nais
Adler number: omicroniota,183
Translated headword: made of wicker, wickerwork
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Thucydides [writes]: "the sailors he armed with shields of poor quality and, in most cases, made of wicker".[1]
And
Eunapius [writes]: "other Parthians had wicker shields and wicker helmets, woven in a traditional weave".[2]
And [in the neuter singular] [something] made of wicker.
A rope of willow.
Greek Original:*oi)sui/+nais: *qoukudi/dhs: nau/tais e)cw/plisen a)spi/si fau/lais kai\ oi)sui/+nais tai=s pollai=s. kai\ *eu)na/pios: oi( de\ tw=n *pa/rqwn oi)sui/+nas a)spi/das e)/xontes kai\ kra/nh oi)su/i+na, plokh/n tina pa/trion peplegme/na. kai\ *oi)su/i+non. sxoini/on i)te/as.
Notes:
cf. generally
omicroniota 169,
omicroniota 182. The present headword is a related adjective, here in the feminine dative plural (extracted from the first quotation given).
[1] An ungrammatical version of
Thucydides 4.9.1, on General
Demosthenes at
Pylos. (The first word, 'sailors', should be accusative, not dative.) See web address 1.
[2]
Eunapius fr. 21 FHG (4.22), Blockley,
Eunapius fr. 27.2.
Blockley, R.C. The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Vol. II. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; clothing; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 June 2005@07:01:23.
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