Νέοντας

swimming

Translated by David Whitehead3 Oct 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 21 words
[ne/ontas means the same as] nhxome/nous.1 "They even towed across horses swimming, three or four at a time, by their leading-reins".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νέοντας· νηχομένους. ἐφεῖλκον καὶ ἵππους νέοντας τρεῖς ἅμα καὶ τέτταρας τοῖς ἀγωγεῦσι.

Betacode
*ne/ontas: nhxome/nous. e)fei=lkon kai\ i(/ppous ne/ontas trei=s a(/ma kai\ te/ttaras toi=s a)gwgeu=si.

Notes (2)

  1. 1One participle for this glossed with another. Accusative plurals, the headword presumably extracted from the quotation given. ↩
  2. 2Polybius 3.43.4, on Hannibal's troops crossing the river Rhone (web address 1). ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 24 Oct 2020
  1. added a link — Catharine Roth
  2. typo — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. expanded note 1; added a keyword — David Whitehead
  5. Revised — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

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