Appian [writes]: "for the sparing of the men who had returned from the war, he was enlisting young adults, who had no prior experience of war, into 2 legions."[1]
*prwqh/bas: *)appiano/s: o( de\ feidoi= tw=n a)ndrw=n tw=n e)k tou= pole/mou e)lhluqo/twn kate/lege prwqh/bas, ou) pri\n pole/mou pepeirame/nous, e)s b# te/lh.
The headword, an accusative plural form of the noun
prwqh/bhs (as in the quotation that follows), is difficult to render with a single English noun. Literally 'first-youths', i.e. those in the first stage of young manhood. The lemma, unglossed here, may be a remnant of an entry similar to
Hesychius pi4132,
Synagoge pi349, and
Photius pi1234 Theodoridis, deriving from commentary on
Homer,
Iliad 8.518 (where the headword occurs in this case and number). For more on this noun see the next entry,
pi 2943.
[1] An abridgement (in Adler's opinion via the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus) of Appian,
Iberica 274. The passage refers to the campaigns of Q. Fabius
Maximus Aemilianus in
Iberia (142 BCE).
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