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Headword:
*tetrapodhti/
Adler number: tau,400
Translated headword: on all fours
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] on feet and hands. "But they on all fours somehow clung on and forced [their way up]."[1]
Greek Original:*tetrapodhti/: posi\ kai\ xersi/n. oi( de\ tetrapodhti\ tro/pon tina\ prospleca/menoi e)bia/zonto.
Notes:
The rare headword adverb (a single word in the Greek) is presumably extracted from the quotation. (There is another instance in Lucian.)
cf. generally
tau 399.
[1] An approximation of
Polybius 5.60.7 (of an assault on a wall); see web address 1.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 May 2004@09:49:00.
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