Συνείκοντος

giving way, yielding

Translated by David Whitehead17 Oct 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

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[Meaning] being bent. "They had sarissas of ash-timber, in order that, with the timber giving way before the impact, and not being easily broken, [?they would have an advantage?]."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Συνείκοντος· ὑποκλινομένου. μελίνας εἶχον σαρίσσας, ἵνα συνείκοντος τοῦ ξύλου πρὸς τὴν πληγήν, καὶ μὴ κλωμένου ῥᾳδίως.

Betacode

*sunei/kontos: u(poklinome/nou. meli/nas ei)=xon sari/ssas, i(/na sunei/kontos tou= cu/lou pro\s th\n plhgh/n, kai\ mh\ klwme/nou r(a|di/ws.

Notes (1)

The headword -- present participle, masculine/neuter genitive singular, of LSJ's sunei/kw (A) -- is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
1Quotation unidentifiable. (Attributed by Bernhardy to Polybius.) On the sarissa see sigma 132. ↩

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σ132ΣάρισσαsarissaA type of Greek javelin. A long Macedonian spear.

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σ1530Συνείδησιςcommon knowledge, consciousness σ1531ΣυνείθισμαιI am accustomed to, I am habituated to σ1532Συνείκοντοςgiving way, yielding σ1533Συνειλεγμέναgathered-together [things]σ1534Συνειλόχασιthey have collected

Revision history3 revisions · last 3 Jan 2014

3 Jan 2014Revised — David Whitehead
25 Oct 2010expanded primary note — David Whitehead
25 Oct 2010expanded note, set status — Catharine Roth
17 Oct 2010Translated — David Whitehead

Translation

Greek original · Adler’s text

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