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Headword: *ptoi/a
Adler number: pi,3057
Translated headword: terror
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] commotion, fear.[1]
"The Scythians converted everything into so much fright and terror that he, a single person, pursued ten thousand who had weapons but did not raise their hands against him though he was unarmed."[2]
Greek Original:
*ptoi/a: pto/hsis. fo/bos. oi( de\ *sku/qai e)s tou=to dei/matos kai\ ptoi/as a(/panta perie/sthsan, w(/ste ei(=s kai\ muri/ous e)di/wken, ei) kai\ h)=n a)/noplos, o(/pla e)/xontas kai\ xei=ras ou)k a)ntairome/nous.
Notes:
The headword is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, possibly extracted from some literary context (but, if so, not from the quotation given: see n. 2). See also pi 3058 for its accusative case, with similar glossing.
[1] For the first gloss cf. Pollux 5.122, Etymologicum Magnum s.v. ptoi=ai (694.57); for the second ps.-Herodian, Epimerismi 117, Hesychius pi4253, Etymologicum Magnum s.v. ptow= (694.53), and, according to Adler, Lexicon Ambrosianum 1455.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus) unidentifiable. The headword noun appears here in the genitive case.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 25 September 2013@10:41:13.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, set status) on 25 September 2013@23:51:54.
David Whitehead (another keyword; adjustments) on 26 September 2013@03:42:29.
David Whitehead on 23 October 2013@06:03:36.
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