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Headword:
*(upete/mneto
Adler number: upsilon,401
Translated headword: was being cut off
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] was being hidden.[1] "As the missiles were released at a signal, the light [sc. of the sun] was being cut off."[2]
Greek Original:*(upete/mneto: u(pekru/pteto. a)po\ sunqh/matos a)fieme/nwn tw=n belw=n, to\ fw=s u(pete/mneto.
Notes:
[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation, is third person singular, imperfect middle/passive, of
u(pote/mnw. For this verb, see also
upsilon 605,
upsilon 606,
upsilon 607,
upsilon 608,
upsilon 609,
upsilon 610.
[2] Not identified by Adler, but revealed by a TLG search to be from
Josephus,
Jewish War 3.266 (web address 1). See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXVII. (Perhaps an allusion to
Herodotus' famous 7.226 "we will fight in the shade.")
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 April 2011@22:12:06.
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