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Headword:
*sunno/mwn
Adler number: sigma,1597
Translated headword: of ashlar [ones]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] of large [sc. and] similar [ones]. "He counted up the courses; for [the tower] was built out of ashlar stones, resulting in its being very easy to calculate the distance of the battlements from the ground."[1]
Greek Original:*sunno/mwn: mega/lwn o(moi/wn. e)chriqmh/sato tou\s do/mous: h)=n ga\r e)k sunno/mwn li/qwn w)|kodomhme/nos, w(/ste kai\ li/an eu)sullo/giston ei)=nai th\n a)po\ gh=s tw=n e)pa/lcewn a)po/stasin.
Notes:
The headword, genitive plural of this adjective, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Polybius 8.37.1, on the capture of Syracuse in 212 BCE by Roman forces under the command of M. Claudius Marcellus; cf. Livy 25.23.8-12 and
Plutarch,
Marcellus. The 'he' of
Polybius' quotation is not Marcellus himself but another, unnamed Roman.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 January 2014@09:57:51.
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