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Headword:
*frea/tia
Adler number: phi,699
Translated headword: wells
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] deep excavations.[1]
"He ravaged the entire land, not even sparing the well streams."[2]
And elsewhere: "but the place had cisterns unknown [sc. to outsiders]".[3]
Also [sc. attested is the related feminine noun] freati/a ["cistern"], [meaning an] excavation.[4]
Greek Original:*frea/tia: ta\ baqe/a o)ru/gmata. pa=san e)dh/|wse th\n gh=n, mh/te tw=n freati/nwn nama/twn feisa/menos. kai\ au)=qis: freati/as de\ ei)=xen o( to/pos a)gnooume/nas. kai\ *freati/a, o)/rucis.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Hesychius, the
Synagoge, and
Photius'
Lexicon. The neuter plural headword means, strictly speaking, small wells, as this noun is the diminutive of
fre/ar (cf.
phi 697).
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (For the adjective in the second clause in it, Adler reports that mss GFVM have
freati/wn, and this reading is presupposed in LSJ s.v.; however, Adler prints
freati/nwn and refers also to Porson's conjecture
freatiai/wn.)
[3] An approximation of
Polybius 10.28.2, on the desert terrain east of the Caspian Gates.
[4] Instances in
Xenophon and elsewhere.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 August 2011@07:52:29.
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