Μεταίχμιον
no man's land
Translated by David Whitehead10 Jul 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning the terrain] between two phalanxes of the war [= battle].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μεταίχμιον· μεταξὺ δύο φαλάγγων τοῦ πολέμου.
Betacode
*metai/xmion: metacu\ du/o fala/ggwn tou= pole/mou.
Notes
- A clumsy gloss (also in the Synagoge, and Photius mu313 Theodoridis), but the essence of the word -- literally, between-spears -- is clear enough: see LSJ s.v. (web address 1). It appears to be a word used by un-military historians (Herodotus 6.77 and 112) and poets rather than any kind of technical term.
References
W.K. Pritchett, The Greek State at War, iv (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1985) 51-4
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 21 Aug 2020
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