Προσηρεικότος

when he had secured

Translated by David Whitehead16 Mar 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

1 note · 26 words

Translation

[Meaning] when he had attached. "He [A] built stoas, and when he [B] had, by means of them, secured the ram-bearing machines to the wall [...]."1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Προσηρεικότος· προσαρμόσαντος. ὁ δὲ κατεσκεύασε στοάς, καὶ διὰ τούτων προσηρεικότος τῷ τείχει τὰς κριοφόρους μηχανάς.

Betacode
*proshreiko/tos: prosarmo/santos. o( de\ kateskeu/ase stoa/s, kai\ dia\ tou/twn proshreiko/tos tw=| tei/xei ta\s kriofo/rous mhxana/s. 

Notes (1)

  1. The headword, a perfect participle in the masculine genitive singular (from proserei/dw), is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
  2. 1Polybius fr.211. (The two individuals are unidentifiable.) For 'stoas' in this sense (III in LSJ s.v.), cf. Polybius 1.48.2. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 17 Oct 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. expanded notes — David Whitehead
  4. set status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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