Περιλέποντες

stripping off all round

Translated by David Whitehead7 Mar 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

1 note · 20 words
[Meaning they] removing the bark all round. Herodotus [writes]: "stripping off the bark all round the trees and eating [it]."1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Περιλέποντες· τὸν φλοιὸν περιαιροῦντες. Ἡρόδοτος· τῶν δενδρέων τὸν φλοιὸν περιλέποντες καὶ ἐσθίοντες.

Betacode
*perile/pontes: to\n floio\n periairou=ntes. *(hro/dotos: tw=n dendre/wn to\n floio\n perile/pontes kai\ e)sqi/ontes.

Notes (1)

  1. The headword participle is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
  2. 1Herodotus 8.115.2 (Xerxes' army on its retreat from Greece). ↩

Neighbouring entries

π1195ΠερίλαοςPerilaosπ1196Περίλεξιςcircumlocutionπ1197Περιλέποντεςstripping off all roundπ1198Περιλιχμώμενοςlicking all overπ1199ΠερίλλοςPerillos, Perilaos, Perilaus
Revision history3 revisions · last 25 Sep 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. expanded n.1; another keyword — David Whitehead
  3. set status — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — David Whitehead

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