Ψευδόπυρα
false watch-fires
Translated by Catharine Roth22 Dec 2005Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
A strategem, which they make by burning fires through the night to terrify the enemy.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ψευδόπυρα· στρατήγημα, ὅπερ ποιοῦσι, διὰ νυκτὸς καίοντες πυρὰ πρὸς κατάπληξιν τῶν πολεμίων.
Betacode
*yeudo/pura: strath/ghma, o(/per poiou=si, dia\ nukto\s kai/ontes pura\ pro\s kata/plhcin tw=n polemi/wn.
Notes
- Though the headword term, as explained here, ought to have been commonplace enough, it is otherwise attested only in two late paroemiographers (Macarius Chrysocephalus 8.86; Michael Apostolius 18.53).
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Revision history2 revisions · last 5 Aug 2011
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- added note and more keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth