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Headword:
*skiwrei=tai
Adler number: sigma,615
Translated headword: Skioreitai, Skioritai, Skiritai, Sciritae
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An Arcadian troop of six hundred men, which in wars[1] engages first and withdraws last.
Greek Original:*skiwrei=tai: lo/xos a)ndrw=n e(cakosi/wn *)arkadiko/s, o( a)rxo/meno/s te e)n toi=s polemi/ois kai\ teleutai=os a)naxwrw=n.
Notes:
Same entry in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon s.v.
*skiri=tai (the correct form -- both
Photius sigma346 Theodoridis s.v.
*skiwri=tai and the Suda distort it).
The Skiritai were more exactly, however, a light-armed division of the classical *Spartan* army, deriving their name from the town of Skiris in Arcadia (a Spartan dependency). See e.g.
Thucydides 5.67ff;
Xenophon,
Hellenica 5.2.24,
Constitution of the Lacedaimonians 12.3;
Diodorus Siculus 15.32.
[1] Thus
Timaeus. The lexica miscopy (or misremember)
pole/mois as
polemi/ois.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 December 2002@05:40:52.
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