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Headword:
*plai/sion
Adler number: pi,1715
Translated headword: oblong, rectangle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A four-sided military formation. Also a four-sided frame [constructed] out of timbers, which some call a plinthion.[1]
Whenever someone deploys towards all the sides in an oblong shape.[2]
Greek Original:*plai/sion: tetra/gwnos ta/cis strateu/matos. kai\ to\ e)k cu/lwn tetragw/nwn ph=gma, o(/ tines plinqi/on kalou=sin. o(po/tan pro\s pa/sas ta\s pleura\s parata/chtai/ tis e(teromh/kei sxh/mati.
Notes:
cf.
pi 1775,
pi 1778. Modern scholars sometimes refer to this as the 'square' formation, but bricks are rectangular, and when a writer means a square, he has to say so explicitly (for an example,
Xenophon, see at
pi 1778).
[1] Same or similar material in other lexica (references at
Photius pi910 Theodoridis), and cf. the
scholia to
Thucydides 6.67.1, where the phrase
e)n plaisi/w| occurs in his description of a battle-order at Syracuse.
[2] Some of the mss. have a small diagram to illustrate this: a rectangular box containing 12 dots in 4 columns of three.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 April 2010@05:35:41.
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