Καταβολή
onset, wheeling-about
Translated by Ronald Allen10 Dec 2007Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning an] inaugurating action/operation.1
"From onset [sc. of manufacture], fifty ships to construct, and fifty to come down from the existing shipyards." Polybius [sc. writes this].2
"The pirates, having beheld the attack of the Roman vessels, began, after a wheeling-about [maneuver], to make their retreat."3
Also said [of] a sacrifice,4 a periodic occurrence,5 an initiation.
"From onset [sc. of manufacture], fifty ships to construct, and fifty to come down from the existing shipyards." Polybius [sc. writes this].2
"The pirates, having beheld the attack of the Roman vessels, began, after a wheeling-about [maneuver], to make their retreat."3
Also said [of] a sacrifice,4 a periodic occurrence,5 an initiation.