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Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοι · stones were laid in (ε 77) · Suda

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Near ε77

ε73slosh in!
ε74fruit-containing, fruitful
ε75athwart, oblique
ε76bowels, entrails
ε77stones were laid in
ε78immured, walled in
ε79having yoked in together
ε80they fell upon
ε81counted among

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε77

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Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοι

stones were laid in

Translated by Marta Steele23 Jul 2006Vetting: high5 revisions

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1 note · 11 words

Translation

Meaning were built in.¹
And Homer [writes]: "and laying dry-stone walls."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοι· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐγκατῳκοδομήθησαν. καὶ Ὅμηρος· αἱμασιάς τε λέγων.

Betacode

*)egkatele/ghsan li/qoi: a)nti\ tou= e)gkatw|kodomh/qhsan. kai\ *(/omhros: ai(masia/s te le/gwn.

Notes (1)

[1] From the scholia to Thucydides 1.93.2, where the phrase li/qoi ei)rgasme/noi e)gkatele/ghsan ("prepared stones were laid in") occurs in the description of the Themistoclean rebuilding of the walls of Athens in 479 BCE; cf. delta 625.
2Homer Odyssey 18.359. For the verb in this sense, "picking out stones for building walls", see LSJ s.v. le/gw A.1.

Linked from1 entry

δ625Διαλέγουσανenlarging, picking open[Meaning her] building over. For le/gein [sc. can apply to] to building. Also [sc. attested is the imperative] diale/gou, [meaning] dig through! Thucydides [sc. uses the word].

Neighbouring entries

ε75Ἐγκάρσιονathwart, oblique ε76Ἔγκασινbowels, entrails ε77Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοιstones were laid in ε78Ἐγκατῳκοδόμησενimmured, walled in ε79Ἐγκαταζεύξαςhaving yoked in together

Revision history5 revisions · last 24 Jul 2012

24 Jul 2012more keywords — David Whitehead
24 Jul 2006augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
23 Jul 2006rearranged translation, modified notes, set status — Catharine Roth
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23 Jul 2006Translated — Marta Steele

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοι (Adler number epsilon 77), trans. Marta Steele, 23 Jul 2006. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/77

Translation by Marta Steele for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗