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Headword: *suskeua/zesqai
Adler number: sigma,1679
Translated headword: to pack [for oneself]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to carry.[1] Xenophon [writes]: "Cyrus told the troops to pack food for twenty days; and as to wine, each man should [pack] just enough to last until they accustomed themselves to drink water."[2]
Greek Original:
*suskeua/zesqai: e)pife/resqai. *cenofw=n: o( *ku=ros e)/fh toi=s stratiw/tais suskeua/zesqai si=ta h(merw=n ei)/kosin, oi)=non de\ tosou=ton e(/kaston xrh/, o(/sos i(kano/s e)stin e)qi/sai h(ma=s au)tou\s u(dropotei=n.
Notes:
[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is present middle infinitive of suskeua/zw; cf. sigma 1512, sigma 1678.
[2] An approximation of Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.2.25-6 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 November 2001@06:27:20.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 23 January 2005@16:17:30.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 24 January 2005@03:02:35.
David Whitehead (tweaked n.1) on 23 August 2011@06:51:32.
David Whitehead on 5 January 2014@05:47:37.
Catharine Roth (another cross-reference) on 30 May 2022@01:06:44.
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