Κόπτοντες
slaughtering, striking down
Translated by Catharine Roth19 Jan 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
"By slaughtering the draft-animals, in this way they endured the difficulty."1 Meaning using them for food.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κόπτοντες· τὰ ὑποζύγια κόπτοντες οὕτω τῇ ἀπορίᾳ ἀντεῖχον. ἀντὶ τοῦ χρώμενοι τούτοις πρὸς ἐδωδήν.
Betacode
*ko/ptontes: ta\ u(pozu/gia ko/ptontes ou(/tw th=| a)pori/a| a)ntei=xon. a)nti\ tou= xrw/menoi tou/tois pro\s e)dwdh/n.
Notes (1)
- The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is present participle, masculine nominative plural, of
ko/ptw (kappa 2062). - 1Gaisford suggested that this is an approximation, or paraphrase, of Xenophon, Anabasis 2.1.6 (web address 1): "the troops provided themselves with food as best they could, by slaughtering oxen and asses of the baggage train". ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 8 Apr 2013
- upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; another keyword; tweaks — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth