Ἐληΐζοντο
they were marauding
Translated by William Hutton1 Feb 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] they were being marauders.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐληΐζοντο· ἐλῃστεύοντο.
Betacode
*)elhi/+zonto: e)lh|steu/onto.
Notes
- One verb (imperfect indicative middle, third person plural), glossed with another verb (same form) from the same root but with the addition of several alternating deverbative and denominative suffixes to the stem.
= Lexica Segueriana 216.6 Bachmann.
The headword must be quoted from somewhere, very probably an historian. It appears four times in Thucydides (who also, twice, uses the synonymous gloss: 4.2.3 [web address 1] and 7.18.3 [web address 2]; twice in Xenophon; and thereafter in other historians from Polybius through the Roman and Byzantine periods.