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Headword:
*yuxomaxou=ntes
Adler number: psi,169
Translated headword: fighting for their lives
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Polybius [writes]: "the Romans, fighting for their lives, had for nearly 15 years kept entirely away from naval activity".[1] "Most of the subsequent undertaking was a matter of fighting with resolve".[2] A battle in the cold.[3]
Greek Original:*yuxomaxou=ntes: *polu/bios: oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi yuxomaxou=ntes, sxedo\n h)\ ie# e)/th tw=n kata\ qa/lassan pragma/twn o(losxerw=s a)festhko/tes. h)=n de\ kai\ th=s u(/steron e)pibolh=s to\ plei=on yuxomaxi/a. peri\ to\ yu=xos ma/xh.
Notes:
The headword participle is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1]
Polybius 1.59.1, who says five years (and in fact should have said six). See web address 1.
[2]
Polybius 1.59.6, as construed by Walbank 123 (which gives the verb a meaning different from that in the earlier passage).
[3] So the transmitted text,
peri\ to\ yu=xos; but in the 1543
Basel edition of the Suda it is plausibly emended to
peri\ th=s yuxh=s, 'of life and death'.
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, i (Oxford 1957)
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Keywords: chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2001@06:54:24.
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