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Headword:
*sa/los
Adler number: sigma,58
Translated headword: tossing motion; roadstead
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] oscillation, disturbance. Also anxiety.[1]
"They took a small town [...] which had no harbour but did have roadsteads and well-placed headlands enclosing [them] out of the land".[2]
And elsewhere: "and they made it, concentrated by the tossing motion, more solid".[3]
Greek Original:*sa/los: saleumo/s, ta/raxos. kai\ h( fronti/s. kate/labon polisma/tion a)li/menon me/n, sa/lous de\ e)/xon kai\ probola\s perikleiou/sas e)k th=s gh=s eu)fuei=s. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ tw=| sa/lw| suniza/non e)poi/oun au)to\ sterifw/teron.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius phi46 Theodoridis. See also
sigma 41 and
sigma 59.
[2] An approximation (should be not 'they took' but 'they anchored off') of
Polybius 1.53.10 (web address 1).
[3] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Josephus,
Jewish War 7.314 (part of his description of an inner wall built by the defenders of
Masada: web address 2). See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXVI.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2010@10:42:39.
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