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Headword:
*traxhli/zwn
Adler number: tau,921
Translated headword: throttling
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Kleostratos of
Rhodes won a victory in wrestling; [it was he] who carried off [the prize] by throttling [his opponent]."[1]
And
Josephus [writes]: "throttled by daily war and dissension, they were suffering most pitiably".[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] throat, [meaning] the part of the body.
*traxhli/zwn: *kleo/stratos *(ro/dios pa/lhn nika=|: o(\s traxhli/zwn a)pela/mbane. kai\ *)iw/shpos: pole/mw| kai\ dixonoi/a| kaqhme/ran traxhlizome/nous oi)ktro/tata pa/sxein. kai\ *tra/xhlos, to\ me/ros tou= sw/matos.
Notes:
[1]
Eusebius,
Chronicon 1 p.42; cf. generally
nu 410 (but Kleostratos himself is otherwise unattested).
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish War 4.375 (web address 1).
Web address 1
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 August 2006@06:10:50.
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