Νευσούμενοι

about to swim, in order to swim

Translated by Ryan Stone23 Nov 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 26 words

[Meaning they who are] about to dive/swim.¹ Xenophon [writes]: "stripping, taking [sc. only] our knives, naked in order to swim, we were trying to cross over."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νευσούμενοι· κολυμβήσοντες. Ξενοφῶν· ἐκδύντες, ἔχοντες τὰ ἐγχειρίδια γυμνοὶ ὡς νευσούμενοι ἐπειρώμεθα διαβαίνειν.

Betacode

*neusou/menoi: kolumbh/sontes. *cenofw=n: e)kdu/ntes, e)/xontes ta\ e)gxeiri/dia gumnoi\ w(s neusou/menoi e)peirw/meqa diabai/nein.

Notes (2)

1The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is future participle of ne/w, masculine nominative plural. For headword plus gloss cf. nu 290, nu 292. ↩
2Xenophon Anabasis 4.3.12. ↩

Linked from1 entry

ν290Νεῖνto swim[Meaning] to dive/swim, and to spin a thread. Arrian [writes]: "all those who were the lightest, and armed the lightest, and were the most adept at swimming, he ordered to start swimming out on his signal." And…

Neighbouring entries

ν270Νεῦρονsinew, tendon, nerve ν271Νευροσπαδὴς ἄτρακτοςstring-sped arrow ν272Νευσούμενοιabout to swim, in order to swim ν273Νεφέλαιclouds ν274Νεφέλας ξαίνειςyou are carding clouds

Revision history3 revisions · last 7 Jun 2013

7 Jun 2013Revised — David Whitehead
24 Nov 2009x-refs; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
24 Nov 2009tweaked translation, added notes and keywords — Catharine Roth
23 Nov 2009Translated — Ryan Stone