Περιπόλους
patrolmen, peripoloi
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Translation
[Meaning] the guards, or examiners. From the [verb] peripolei=n . Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "should one not, then, have sent peripoloi [after him]" - in that order, not "should peripoloi not have sent?".1
Thucydides [writes]: "they and the peripoloi laid an ambush".2
Thucydides [writes]: "they and the peripoloi laid an ambush".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιπόλους· τοὺς φύλακας, ἢ ζητητάς. ἀπὸ τοῦ περιπολεῖν. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισιν· οὐκοῦν δῆτα περιπόλους ἐχρῆν πέμψαι; τὸ δὲ ἑξῆς, οὐκ ἐχρῆν περιπόλους πέμψαι; Θουκυδίδης· οἱ δὲ καὶ οἱ περίπολοι ἐνήδρευσαν.
Betacode
*peripo/lous: tou\s fu/lakas, h)\ zhthta/s. a)po\ tou= peripolei=n. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisin: ou)kou=n dh=ta peripo/lous e)xrh=n pe/myai; to\ de\ e(ch=s, ou)k e)xrh=n peripo/lous pe/myai; *qoukudi/dhs: oi( de\ kai\ oi( peri/poloi e)nh/dreusan.
Notes (2)
- See already pi 1259, and again pi 1261.
- 1Aristophanes, Birds 1177-78 (web address 1), with the comment of a scholiast. The Suda's headword, extracted from the passage, is accusative plural. ↩
- 2Thucydides 4.67.2, abridged (web address 2). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- π1259Περίπολοςpatrolman, peripolosAristotle in the Constitution of [the] Athenians, speaking about the ephebes, says this: "the second year, at an assembly in the theater, they accept a shield and a spear from the people and patrol the countryside,…
- π1261Περιπόλωνof patrolmen, of peripoloi[Meaning] of guards, of examiners. "One of the patrolmen ran up and hurled a bronze shield over the pit. This, being wide but convex, did not ring out solid, but hollow and quite hollow." Perhaps "quite empty".
- π1263Περιπολῶνgoing around, patrolling[Meaning he] running around. "The cross was leading the way for both the emperor and the attendant force." Simocatta says [sc. this].
- τ344Τερθρείαhair-splitting, quibbling[Meaning] verbal pedantry; for there is a particular light rope on ships, which is called a terthron. Some say that [terthra are] the upper holes of the mechanism on the mast, from which hangs the mast's yardarm; but…
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