Ὁμηρεύοντας
serving as hostages
Translated by Malcolm Heath13 Dec 2000Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὁμηρεύοντας· Αἰσχίνης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Κτησιφῶντος ἐπὶ τῶν ἄνω πεμφθέντων Λακεδαιμονίων Ἀλεξάνδρῳ. ἦσαν δὲ νʹ.
Betacode
*(omhreu/ontas: *ai)sxi/nhs e)n tw=| kata\ *kthsifw=ntos e)pi\ tw=n a)/nw pemfqe/ntwn *lakedaimoni/wn *)aleca/ndrw|. h)=san de\ n#.
Notes (1)
- An abridgement of the beginning of Harpokration s.v. (which goes on to provide omicron 250, q.v.). There, besides Aeschines 3.133 (which actually has the future participle, "to serve as hostages"), Clitarchus (FGrH 137 F4) is cited for the number fifty.
On this episode, at the end of the abortive revolt of Agis III (330 BC), see in brief A.B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: the reign of Alexander the Great (Cambridge 1988) 203-4. - 1The participle
a)napemfqe/ntwn in Harpok. has here becomea)/nw pemfqe/ntwn . ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 10 Jan 2021
- coding — Catharine Roth
- x-ref; more keywords; cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- modified headword; added notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Malcolm Heath