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Headword:
*trimmou/s
Adler number: tau,991
Translated headword: pathways, beaten tracks
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] well-trodden roads.
Aelian [writes]: "and looking up they see pathways of the ascent and approaches, by which the Roman went up, and they realised that it was not impassible but climbable."[1]
*trimmou/s: ta\s tetrimme/nas o(dou=s. *ai)liano/s: kai\ a)nable/pontes o(rw=si trimmou\s th=s a)no/dou kai\ prosba/seis, di' w(=n a)nh=lqen o( *(rwmai=os, kai\ sune/balon mh\ a)/poron ei)=nai, a)ll' e)pibato/n.
Notes:
The headword is accusative plural, presumably extracted from the quotation given (though see also
Xenophon,
Cynegeticus 4.9).
[1]
Aelian fr. 114 Hercher, from an account of the famous story of the Capitol in Rome being menaced by the Gauls in 390 BCE (but saved by geese); cf. generally Livy 5.47.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 May 2011@06:26:55.
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