Νεοσπάδα

new-plucked

Translated by Catharine Roth15 Aug 2009Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 12 words

[Meaning one] recently dragged-away.¹ The Pisidian [writes]: "this phalanx the new-plucked [one]."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νεοσπάδα· τὴν νεωστὶ ἀποσπασθεῖσαν. Πισίδης· ταύτην δὲ τὴν φάλαγγα τὴν νεοσπάδα.

Betacode

*neospa/da: th\n newsti\ a)pospasqei=san. *pisi/dhs: tau/thn de\ th\n fa/lagga th\n neospa/da.

cf. sigma 896.
1Accusative singular of the rare adjective neospa/s, presumably extracted from the quotation given (though this same form also occurs in Sophocles fr. 502 Radt (preserved by Harpocration and Athenaeus). ↩
2George of Pisidia, Heraclias 3 fr. 25 Tartaglia. The fragment has no context. ↩

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