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Headword:
*pursouri/das
Adler number: pi,3250
Translated headword: beacons
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[It is said] that Perseus the Macedonian set up beacons throughout the whole of Macedonia; by means of these he would learn quickly what was happening everywhere."[1]
This is [sc. also] how the present-day torches herald the approach of the barbarians.[2]
Greek Original:*pursouri/das: o(/ti *perseu\s o( *makedw\n kata\ pa=san *makedoni/an kataskeuasa/menos pursouri/das dia\ tou/twn o)ce/ws e)ma/nqane ta\ pantaxh= gino/mena. ou(/tws oi( nu=n fanoi\ oi( th\n tw=n barba/rwn e)/fodon proshmai/nontes.
Notes:
The headword, accusative plural, is evidently extracted from the quotation given.
cf. generally
pi 3247,
pi 3248,
pi 3249.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable ([
Polybius] fr.216).
[2] Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AV.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 February 2010@04:10:32.
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