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Headword: *pro/sriza
Adler number: pi,2800
Translated headword: at the root
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] with the roots.
Appian [writes]: "he was cutting the trees at the root, to prevent them growing again."[1]
Greek Original:
*pro/sriza: su\n tai=s r(i/zais. *)appiano/s: ta\ de/ndra e)/kopte pro/sriza, tou= mh\ pa/lin fu=nai.
Notes:
See also pi 2580.
[1] Appian fr. 11. For an unidentified episode of destroying orchards, see omicron 481 and sigma 1681.
Keywords: biography; botany; definition; historiography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 February 2010@07:28:31.
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Catharine Roth (tweak, cross-reference, status) on 24 February 2010@20:05:21.
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