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Headword: *sitoboli/ois
Adler number: sigma,498
Translated headword: [as] granaries
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning as] storehouses. "He protected the houses of the city unharmed, and its walls, wishing to use them as granaries for wintering over."[1]
Also [sc. attested is] sitobolw=nos.[2]
Greek Original:
*sitoboli/ois: a)poqh/kais. ta\s de\ oi)ki/as th=s po/lews a)kerai/ous diefu/lace kai\ ta\ tei/xh, boulo/menos sitoboli/ois xrh/sasqai pro\s paraxeimasi/an. kai\ *sitobolw=nos.
Notes:
The headword, dative plural of this neuter noun, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] An approximation of Polybius 3.100.4, on Hannibal at Gerunium (Apulia, S Italy) in 217 BCE (see web address 1).
[2] Adler does print here the genitive singular of a related masculine noun, while noting that some of the mss have its nominative plural. For this see also Hesychius sigma761. The accusative plural occurs in Genesis 41.56 LXX.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; historiography; history; military affairs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 February 2014@09:15:55.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweak, status) on 2 February 2014@11:29:26.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 3 February 2014@02:52:21.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; another keyword) on 17 July 2014@02:49:54.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 17 July 2014@09:35:33.
David Whitehead on 26 May 2016@03:38:48.
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