Ὁρμητήριον
base of operations, stimulant, incentive, motivation
Translated by Ronald Allen25 Aug 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὁρμητήριον· Πολύβιος· τὸ δὲ φρούριον οἱ Παννόνιοι καταρχὰς τοῦ πολέμου λαβόντες ὁρμητήριον ἐπεποίηντο καὶ εἰς ὑποδοχὴν τῶν λαφύρων ἐξῃρήκεσαν. ἔστι δὲ ὁρμητήριον, ὅθεν τὰ πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον ἐξαρτύοντες ἐξίασι μαχεσόμενοι.
Betacode
*(ormhth/rion: *polu/bios: to\ de\ frou/rion oi( *panno/nioi katarxa\s tou= pole/mou labo/ntes o(rmhth/rion e)pepoi/hnto kai\ ei)s u(podoxh\n tw=n lafu/rwn e)ch|rh/kesan. e)/sti de\ o(rmhth/rion, o(/qen ta\ pro\s to\n po/lemon e)cartu/ontes e)ci/asi maxeso/menoi.
Notes (2)
- The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is a neuter noun in the nominative (and vocative and accusative) singular; see LSJ s.v. and cf. ps.-Zonaras 1468. Adler also cites Lexicon Ambrosianum 514.
- 1Named for 'a group of Illyrian peoples who had absorbed Celtic influences to varying degrees' (OCD(4) s.v.), the Roman province of Pannonia (founded in 9 CE) lay south and west of the middle Danube region (Barrington Atlas map 20 grids C3-E4), roughly in what now occupies parts of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia; cf. pi 206, pi 879, and eta 277. In her critical apparatus, Adler notes an alternative spelling in mss GSM,
*pano/nnioi , for the name of the ethnic group, i.e. the entity relevant to the present entry; but for the regular spelling cf. the toponym under alpha 527 and nu 561. ↩ - 2Polybius fr. 64 (Büttner-Wobst). The fragment is unplaced, and its attribution to Polybius is uncertain (Büttner-Wobst, p. 523; Walbank, p. 748). The compound
e)ch|rh/kesan is indeed unlikely (Walbank, ibid.), and, as Adler notes, Hultsch suggestede)chrtu/kesan (they had fitted up) as an alternative (Hultsch, p. 555). ↩
References
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, Teubner: Leipzig, 1904
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979
F.O. Hultsch, The Histories of Polybius, vol. 2, E.S. Shuckburgh, trans., London: Macmillan and Company, 1889
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979
F.O. Hultsch, The Histories of Polybius, vol. 2, E.S. Shuckburgh, trans., London: Macmillan and Company, 1889
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Revision history4 revisions · last 6 Aug 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked n.1 — David Whitehead
- x-refs; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- tweaks, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ronald Allen