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Headword: *pepodisme/noi
Adler number: pi,1010
Translated headword: foot-bound, hobbled
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning ones] restrained by the feet. Xenophon [writes]: "a Persian army is useless at night, for their horses are tethered [and hobbled]".[1]

Greek Original:

*pepodisme/noi: tou\s po/das katesxhme/noi. *cenofw=n: ponhro/n e)sti nukto\s stra/teuma *persiko/n: oi( ga\r i(/ppoi au)toi=s de/dentai.

Note:

[1] Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.35 (web address 1). See already pi 1009, and see LSJ s.v. for other meanings of podi/zw.

Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; geography; historiography; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2001@08:29:58.
Vetted by:

William Hutton (cosmetics, added link, set status) on 16 December 2003@20:54:24.
Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 3 June 2004@01:55:36.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 4 June 2004@06:44:38.
David Whitehead on 13 May 2011@05:33:29.
David Whitehead on 13 September 2011@10:50:28.
David Whitehead on 22 September 2013@09:38:33.

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