Στρατήγιον

general's tent, headquarters

Translated by Debra Hamel16 Nov 1998Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 20 words

[Meaning] the [principal?] place of the army.¹
"The commanders ran to the general's tent, the rest to their private tents."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Στρατήγιον· ὁ τόπος τοῦ στρατοῦ. οἱ μὲν ἡγεμόνες πρὸς τὸ στρατήγιον, ἡ δὲ πληθὺς ἐπὶ τὰς ἰδίας σκηνὰς ἔθεον.

Betacode

*strath/gion: o( to/pos tou= stratou=. oi( me\n h(gemo/nes pro\s to\ strath/gion, h( de\ plhqu\s e)pi\ ta\s i)di/as skhna\s e)/qeon.

Notes (2)

See already sigma 1170.
1(cf. sigma 1182, sigma 1183.) Adler notes, without adopting, the view of Aemilius Portus that stratou= "of the army" here should be emended to strathgou= "of the general". ↩
2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. ↩

Linked from1 entry

σ1170Στρατήγιονgeneral's quarters[Meaning] the camp. In Attic dialect. Sophocles [writes]: "going to the middle of the general's quarters." And elsewhere: "[they were] gathered together around the general's quarters."

Neighbouring entries

σ1169Στρατηγιᾶνto wish to be a general σ1170Στρατήγιονgeneral's quarters σ1171Στρατήγιονgeneral's tent, headquarters σ1172Στρατηγὶς ναῦςgeneral's ship, flagship σ1173Στρατηγῶ>20 γενικῇI command as general

Revision history7 revisions · last 26 May 2016

26 May 2016coding — David Whitehead
2 May 2014expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
1 Jan 2014Revised — David Whitehead
10 May 2011expanded n.2; another keyword — David Whitehead
22 Sep 2004modified translation; added another note — David Whitehead
16 Feb 2003cosmetics — David Whitehead
22 May 2001added headword, note, keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
16 Nov 1998Translated — Debra Hamel