Ἐπισάξαι

to saddle

Translated by David Whitehead22 Apr 2003Vetting: high6 revisions

1 note · 48 words
[Meaning] to mount. Xenophon [writes]: "if a disturbance occurs, it is necessary for the Persian man to saddle his horse and, after he has put his breastplate on, to mount the horse. All of this is hard to do at night, and while a disturbance is going on".1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπισάξαι· ἐπαναβῆναι. Ξενοφῶν· ἐὰν θόρυβος γένηται, δεῖ ἐπισάξαι τὸν ἵππον Πέρσῃ ἀνδρὶ καὶ θωρακισθέντα ἀναβῆναι ἐπὶ τὸν ἵππον. ταῦτα δὲ πάντα χαλεπὰ ποιεῖν νύκτωρ, καὶ θορύβου ὄντος.

Betacode
*)episa/cai: e)panabh=nai. *cenofw=n: e)a\n qo/rubos ge/nhtai, dei= e)pisa/cai to\n i(/ppon *pe/rsh| a)ndri\ kai\ qwrakisqe/nta a)nabh=nai e)pi\ to\n i(/ppon. tau=ta de\ pa/nta xalepa\ poiei=n nu/ktwr, kai\ qoru/bou o)/ntos.

Notes (1)

  1. The headword, aorist active infinitive of e)pisa/ttw, is presumably extracted from the quotation given. (Xenophon has another instance in Cyropaedia 3.3.27.)
  2. 1An approximation of Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.35 (web address 1). The scholia to the passage have a discursive, etymological gloss which amounts to much the same as the one here. ↩

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Revision history6 revisions · last 24 Jan 2021
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  3. expansions to notes — David Whitehead
  4. another note and keyword — David Whitehead
  5. Revised — Catharine Roth
  6. supplemented translation, added link and keyword — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — David Whitehead

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