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Headword:
*pu/knwsis
Adler number: pi,3155
Translated headword: close order, compression
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. can be achieved] by flanker and by rear-ranker. That is, close order by breadth and [by] depth. The 'compressed' man has 2 cubits [sc. distance from the next man], whereas he who is simply deployed [has] 4 cubits.
Greek Original:*pu/knwsis kata\ parasta/thn kai\ e)pista/thn. toute/sti pu/knwsis kata\ mh=kos kai\ ba/qos. kate/xei de\ o( pepuknwme/nos a)nh\r ph/xeis b#, o( de\ a(plw=s tatto/menos ph/xeis d#.
Notes:
The compiler drew this entry verbatim from the
Onomasticon tacticon (30), which adapts
Aelian,
Tactica 11.2-3. (For words related to the headword see also all the other entries between
pi 3142 and
pi 3155, inclusive.)
For this sense of the noun
pu/knwsis, see generally LSJ s.v., III.
See
sigma 1448 for
sunaspismo/s, where (in this abstract technical literature) each man occupies just one cubit.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 April 2010@06:13:17.
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