Πρὸ τῆς πόλεως
before the city
Translated by David Whitehead10 May 2010Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] in front of the city. "The barbarians deployed themselves not before the city but beside the city in a single straight line, looking toward the east and our forces, but with the right wing beside the city, next to the actual wall, and the left turned toward the north."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πρὸ τῆς πόλεως· ἔμπροσθεν τῆς πόλεως. οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι παρετάξαντο οὐ πρὸ τῆς πόλεως, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὴν πόλιν ἐπὶ μίαν εὐθεῖαν, βλέποντες μὲν πρὸς ἀνατολὰς καὶ τὴν ἡμετέραν παρουσίαν, ἔχοντες δὲ τὸ μὲν δεξιὸν κέρας παρὰ τὴν πόλιν πρὸς αὐτῷ τῷ τείχει, τὸ δὲ λαιὸν ἀνῆκον πρὸς τὰς ἄρκτους.
Betacode
*pro\ th=s po/lews: e)/mprosqen th=s po/lews. oi( de\ ba/rbaroi pareta/canto ou) pro\ th=s po/lews, a)lla\ para\ th\n po/lin e)pi\ mi/an eu)qei=an, ble/pontes me\n pro\s a)natola\s kai\ th\n h(mete/ran parousi/an, e)/xontes de\ to\ me\n decio\n ke/ras para\ th\n po/lin pro\s au)tw=| tw=| tei/xei, to\ de\ laio\n a)nh=kon pro\s ta\s a)/rktous.
Notes (1)
- The headword phrase is presumably (though not demonstrably) extracted from the quotation given.
- 1Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable, though evidently from late-antique historiography. ↩
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