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Headword: *fu/lakos
Adler number: phi,824
Translated headword: guard
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[This word occurs] in Herodotus: "at this [part] of the acropolis where no guard had been stationed."[1]
Greek Original:
*fu/lakos: par' *(hrodo/tw|: kata\ tou=to th=s a)kropo/lios, th=| ou)dei\s e)te/takto fu/lakos.
Note:
[1] Herodotus 1.84.2, on Cyrus' [kappa 2777, kappa 2778] capture of Sardis in 546 BCE. The headword is masculine singular nominative of an epic/Ionic omicron-stem alternative to the more common consonant-stem fu=lac. It is used frequently by Herodotus, but only here and in 6.75 in the nominative. (First in Homer, Iliad 24.566, accusative plural.)
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 November 2013@09:30:53.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 25 November 2013@10:00:46.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 25 November 2013@10:10:28.
William Hutton (modified note) on 12 February 2014@00:33:54.
David Whitehead (expanded note; another keyword) on 18 June 2016@07:58:47.
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