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Headword:
*ptoi/an
Adler number: pi,3058
Translated headword: terror
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] commotion, disorder, disturbance, thronging, consternation.[1]
"And a certain terror seized the army on account of the unexpectedness, like [sc. one that would seize those who were] not well-ordered."[2]
Greek Original:*ptoi/an: pto/hsin, qo/rubon, ta/raxon, sunaqroismo/n, pturmo/n. kai\ ptoi/a me/n tis dia\ to\ a)do/khton e)pe/sxe to\ strato/pedon, oi(=a mh\ suntetagme/nous.
Notes:
The headword is a feminine noun in the accusative singular, presumably extracted from some literary context (but not from the quotation given: see n. 2). For the nominative, with similar glossing, see
pi 3057.
[1] =
Synagoge pi764,
Photius pi1480 Theodoridis; cf.
Erotianus 107 Klein,
Hesychius pi4234 (and other references in Theodoridis).
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus) unidentifiable. It contains the nominative singular form of the headword (cf.
pi 3057).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 25 September 2013@11:06:55.
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