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Headword: *sunei/kontos
Adler number: sigma,1532
Translated headword: giving way, yielding
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] being bent. "They had sarissas of ash-timber, in order that, with the timber giving way before the impact, and not being easily broken, [?they would have an advantage?]."[1]
Greek Original:
*sunei/kontos: u(poklinome/nou. meli/nas ei)=xon sari/ssas, i(/na sunei/kontos tou= cu/lou pro\s th\n plhgh/n, kai\ mh\ klwme/nou r(a|di/ws.
Notes:
The headword -- present participle, masculine/neuter genitive singular, of LSJ's sunei/kw (A) -- is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable. (Attributed by Bernhardy to Polybius.) On the sarissa see sigma 132.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 October 2010@10:19:01.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (expanded note, set status) on 25 October 2010@01:23:42.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note) on 25 October 2010@03:10:05.
David Whitehead on 3 January 2014@07:07:24.
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