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Headword:
*qwra/kion
Adler number: theta,438
Translated headword: breastwork, parapet
Vetting Status: high
Translation: That [sc. on the back] of an elephant. "Hannibal, general of the Carthaginians, bringing his breastworks of the elephants and, with these mini-houses[1] of the beasts, cutting down the branches to as great a height as possible made the journey on foot safe and easy."
Greek Original:*qwra/kion: to\ tou= e)le/fantos. o(/ti *)anni/bas o( *karxhdoni/wn strathgo\s fe/rwn tw=n e)lefa/ntwn ta\ qwra/kia kai\ toi=s tw=n qhri/wn oi)kidi/ois e)pi\ plei=ston u(/yos tou\s kla/dous a)poko/ptwn a)sfalh= kai\ r(a|di/an th\n o(doipori/an kateskeu/azen.
Notes:
For the headword see already
theta 436,
theta 437. The present entry features a quotation cited by Adler as [
Polybius] fr. 162b Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (535) that
Stephanus (Henri Estienne, 1531-1598) attributed this fragment to
Polybius. Nevertheless, Büttner-Wobst observes -- and endorses -- Schweighäuser's rejection of the fragment (ibid.). Rance (below) argues at length, and with a mass of invaluable detail on historiography in the Suda, that it should be attributed to
Diodorus Siculus.
[1] For 'mini-houses' cf.
omicroniota 62.
Philip Rance, "An unidentified fragment of Diodorus", Classical Quarterly 59 (2009) 91-111
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
Keywords: biography; botany; definition; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 27 February 2008@14:21:45.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (cosmeticule, status) on 27 February 2008@18:57:40.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks cosmetics) on 28 February 2008@03:31:54.
David Whitehead (augmented notes, with bibliography) on 28 May 2009@10:23:29.
David Whitehead on 4 January 2013@08:50:25.
Ronald Allen (expanded primary note, added bibliographical entry) on 7 October 2018@12:32:33.
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