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Ἡμιολίαις · one-and-a-half-bankers (η 342) · Suda

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η338for us, to us
η339hemina
η340one and a half times as much
η341multiplying by one-and-a-half
η342one-and-a-half-bankers
η343half as much again
η344mule yoke
η345half-obol
η346half-obol

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Ἡμιολίαις

one-and-a-half-bankers

Translated by Catharine Roth28 Aug 2006Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 47 words

Translation

[Meaning] pirate vessels.¹ "Swiftly drawing the keletes and the hemiolae over the isthmus, [he] set sail in a hurry to catch the assembly of the Achaeans."² And elsewhere: "certain robbers coming with many men and pirate ships to Laconian territory, stopping in the contryside carried away booty."³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἡμιολίαις· πειρατικοῖς πλοίοις. ταχὺ δὲ τοὺς κέλητας καὶ τὰς ἡμιολίας ὑπερισθμίσας ἀνήχθη σπεύδων καταλαβεῖν τὴν τῶν Ἀχαιῶν σύνοδον. καὶ αὖθις· λῃσταί τινες εἰς πολυχειρίαν καὶ πειρατικαῖς ἡμιολίαις τῇ Λακωνικῇ προσενεχθέντες, ἐς τὰ χωρία ἐστωσάμενοι λείαν ἀπήγαγον.

Betacode

*(hmioli/ais: peiratikoi=s ploi/ois. taxu\ de\ tou\s ke/lhtas kai\ ta\s h(mioli/as u(perisqmi/sas a)nh/xqh speu/dwn katalabei=n th\n tw=n *)axaiw=n su/nodon. kai\ au)=qis: lh|stai/ tines ei)s poluxeiri/an kai\ peiratikai=s h(mioli/ais th=| *lakwnikh=| prosenexqe/ntes, e)s ta\ xwri/a e)stwsa/menoi lei/an a)ph/gagon.

Notes (2)

[1] The headword is dative plural, evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps, but not necessarily, the second quotation here).
2Polybius fr. 162 Büttner-Wobst; quoted again at upsilon 299. For keletes (another type of ship), see kappa 1301. Büttner-Wobst notes (535) that Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this fragment to Polybius and that Schweighäuser thought the likely subject to be Philip V of Macedon (cf. OCD(4) p.1129). Walbank concurs (753) with Schweighäuser and further suggests that the time frame of the fragment could be the years 215-214 BCE, a period when many of Philip's movements remain unknown. ↩
3Quotation unidentifiable (but perhaps, in view of the vocabulary, Polybius again).

References

Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 128-132
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, (Oxford 1979)

Neighbouring entries

η340Ἡμιολίαone and a half times as much η341Ἡμιολιασμόςmultiplying by one-and-a-half η342Ἡμιολίαιςone-and-a-half-bankers η343Ἡμιόλιοςhalf as much again η344Ἡμιόνειον ζεῦγοςmule yoke

Revision history5 revisions · last 6 Oct 2018

6 Oct 2018corrected my error: missing definite article n.2 — Ronald Allen
6 Oct 2018expanded n.2, added to bibliography — Ronald Allen
17 Dec 2012bibliography; tweaking — David Whitehead
17 Jun 2009tweaked tr. and note 2 — William Hutton
29 Aug 2006augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
28 Aug 2006Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἡμιολίαις (Adler number eta 342), trans. Catharine Roth, 28 Aug 2006. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/eta/342

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