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Headword: *poliorkh=sai
Adler number: pi,1907
Translated headword: to besiege
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Means] just that the enemy are settled down before the city, but e)kpoliorkh=sai ["to take by siege"] [means] to capture the city completely and to enter [it].
Greek Original:
*poliorkh=sai: to\ mo/non th=| po/lei proskaqesqh=nai polemi/ous, e)kpoliorkh=sai de\ to\ tele/ws katalabei=n th\n po/lin kai\ ei)selqei=n.
Note:
The headword is aorist active infinitive of poliorke/w. The entry comes from a scholion on Thucydides 1.94.2, where the third person plural aorist of the compound verb e)kpoliorke/w occurs (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 February 2005@21:12:32.
Vetted by:
Elizabeth Vandiver (Set status) on 14 February 2005@21:21:14.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 15 February 2005@03:05:28.
Catharine Roth (modified note) on 16 February 2005@00:37:31.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 16 February 2005@02:47:25.
David Whitehead on 24 October 2011@08:15:19.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 24 October 2011@12:31:13.
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