Πλαγία φάλαγξ

frontal phalanx, transverse phalanx

Translated by David Whitehead3 Mar 2010Vetting: high5 revisions

1 note · 11 words
That which has a "length"1 many times that of its depth.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πλαγία φάλαγξ· ἥτις ἔχει τὸ μῆκος τοῦ βάθους πολλαπλάσιον.

Betacode
*plagi/a fa/lagc: h(/tis e)/xei to\ mh=kos tou= ba/qous pollapla/sion.

Notes (1)

  1. cf. omicron 572; and again in the Tactica at the end of the Suda.
  2. 1i.e. front. ↩

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π1672Πίφλιξpiphlixπ1673Πλαγάς[answering] blowsπ1674Πλαγία φάλαγξfrontal phalanx, transverse phalanxπ1675Πλαγίωςcrookedly, slantwiseπ1676Πλαγκτήroamer
Revision history5 revisions · last 23 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. tweaks — David Whitehead
  5. set status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“frontal phalanx, transverse phalanx.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 3 March 2010. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/1674>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/pi/1674>.

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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