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Headword:
*tei=xos
makro/n
Adler number: tau,461
Translated headword: long wall
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Note] that the emperor Anastasius built the long wall sixty miles from the city, extending from the sea on the north to the south for a length of 50 miles and with a width of 20 feet.[1]
Interpretation of a dream: he who is sat on a wall seems to be fortunate.[2]
Greek Original:*tei=xos makro/n: o(/ti *)anasta/sios o( basileu\s kti/zei to\ makro\n tei=xos pro\ e(ch/konta mili/wn th=s po/lews, diatei/nas e)k th=s kata\ a)/rkton qala/sshs ei)s meshmbri/an mh=kos me\n mili/wn n#, eu)=ros de\ podw=n k#. lu/sis o)nei/rou: tei/xei kaqesqei\s eu)tuxh\s pe/lein do/kei.
Notes:
[1] From
alpha 2077 (end), q.v. 'The city' is
Byzantium, and the two seas mentioned here are, respectively, the Black Sea and the Propontis; cf. Barrington Atlas map 52 grid C2. For the Anastasian Long Wall Project (directed by James Crow and Alessandra Ricci), see web address 1.
[2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
Web address 1
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 April 2010@04:32:33.
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