Πεπλεγμένη
woven
Translated by David Whitehead10 Mar 2010Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A 'woven' phalanx [is] the one which, compelled to assimilate itself to exposed positions, adopts the rationale of a woodworm; the phalanx becomes sword-shaped and many-shaped in its deployment.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πεπλεγμένη· πεπλεγμένη φάλαγξ ἐστίν, ἥτις ὑποπίπτουσι τόποις ἀναγκαζομένη ἐξομοιοῦσθαι, τερηδόνος λόγον ἐπέχει· ξιφοειδὴς ἡ φάλαγξ γίνεται καὶ πολυειδὴς τῇ τάξει.
Betacode
*peplegme/nh: peplegme/nh fa/lagc e)sti/n, h(/tis u(popi/ptousi to/pois a)nagkazome/nh e)comoiou=sqai, terhdo/nos lo/gon e)pe/xei: cifoeidh\s h( fa/lagc gi/netai kai\ polueidh\s th=| ta/cei.
Notes
- Perfect middle-passive participle of
ple/kw , feminine nominative singular.
This is not a usage ofple/kw registered by LSJ s.v., and, though the material reappears in the Tactica appended to the Suda itself (as no.62 there), there is no equivalent in the best-known 'tactical' writers of earlier times: Asclepiodotus, Aelian and Arrian. See, at best,peplegme/na (twice) in Asclep. 11.7, rendered by Oldfather in the Loeb edition as 'in close formation'.
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Revision history5 revisions · last 22 May 2016
- Revised — David Whitehead
- typo — David Whitehead
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- another note — David Whitehead
- added note and keyword, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead