Περιπόλων

of patrolmen, of peripoloi

Translated by David Whitehead6 Aug 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 37 words
[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."1 Perhaps "quite empty".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Περιπόλων· φυλάκων, ζητητῶν. τῶν δὲ περιπόλων τις περιθέων ἀποβάλλει χαλκῆν ἀσπίδα ὕπερθεν τοῦ ὀρύγματος. ἡ δὲ οὖσα μὲν πλατεῖα, ἀλλὰ κυρτή, οὐ στερεὸν ἐκτύπησεν, ἀλλὰ κοῖλον καὶ διάκοιλον. τάχα διάκενον.

Betacode
*peripo/lwn: fula/kwn, zhthtw=n. tw=n de\ peripo/lwn tis periqe/wn a)poba/llei xalkh=n a)spi/da u(/perqen tou= o)ru/gmatos. h( de\ ou)=sa me\n platei=a, a)lla\ kurth/, ou) stereo\n e)ktu/phsen, a)lla\ koi=lon kai\ dia/koilon. ta/xa dia/kenon.

Notes (2)

  1. For this headword (here in the genitive plural, presumably extracted from the quotation given) see already pi 1259 and pi 1260, and again under tau 344.
  2. 1Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr.14 Habrich. See further, next note. ↩
  3. 2This correction of the final word, from dia/koilon to dia/kenon, has been adopted in modern editions. ↩

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π1259Περίπολοςpatrolman, peripolosπ1260Περιπόλουςpatrolmen, peripoloiπ1261Περιπόλωνof patrolmen, of peripoloiπ1262Περὶ πολλοῦ ποιοῦmake much of, set great store byπ1263Περιπολῶνgoing around, patrolling
Revision history4 revisions · last 26 Sep 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. another x-ref — David Whitehead
  4. set status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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