Προστηθιδίων
pectorals
Translated by David Whitehead29 Oct 2001Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προστηθιδίων· ἐξελθόντες μεγάλοι δύο μετὰ τύπων καὶ προστηθιδίων ἐδέοντο μηδὲν ἀνήκεστον βουλεύεσθαι περὶ τῆς πόλεως. τουτέστιν εἰκόνες μέχρι στήθους.
Betacode
*prosthqidi/wn: e)celqo/ntes mega/loi du/o meta\ tu/pwn kai\ prosthqidi/wn e)de/onto mhde\n a)nh/keston bouleu/esqai peri\ th=s po/lews. toute/stin ei)ko/nes me/xri sth/qous.
Notes (2)
- 1
mega/loi - but this is a corruption ofga/lloi (priests of Kybele: see generally gamma 41, gamma 42). ↩ - 2Polybius 21.6.7 (web address 1). The city is Sestos (sigma 345), at that time (191/0 BCE) menaced by the Romans; cf. Livy 37.9.9. Walbank 96 has an inconclusive note about the distinction between the 'images' and the 'pectorals'. ↩
References
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, III (Oxford 1979)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history7 revisions · last 2 Dec 2021
- added cross-reference n.2 — Ronald Allen
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- Revised — David Whitehead
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- fixed link — Catharine Roth
- modified translation; augmented keywords — David Whitehead
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