Σάλος

tossing motion; roadstead

Translated by David Whitehead21 Nov 2010Vetting: high8 revisions

3 notes · 41 words

Translation

[Meaning] oscillation, disturbance. Also anxiety.1
"They took a small town [...] which had no harbour but did have roadsteads and well-placed headlands enclosing [them] out of the land".2
And elsewhere: "and they made it, concentrated by the tossing motion, more solid".3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σάλος· σαλευμός, τάραχος. καὶ ἡ φροντίς. κατέλαβον πολισμάτιον ἀλίμενον μέν, σάλους δὲ ἔχον καὶ προβολὰς περικλειούσας ἐκ τῆς γῆς εὐφυεῖς. καὶ αὖθις· καὶ τῷ σάλῳ συνιζάνον ἐποίουν αὐτὸ στεριφώτερον.

Betacode
*sa/los: saleumo/s, ta/raxos. kai\ h( fronti/s. kate/labon polisma/tion a)li/menon me/n, sa/lous de\ e)/xon kai\ probola\s perikleiou/sas e)k th=s gh=s eu)fuei=s. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ tw=| sa/lw| suniza/non e)poi/oun au)to\ sterifw/teron. 

Notes (3)

  1. 1Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius phi46 Theodoridis. See also sigma 41 and sigma 59. ↩
  2. 2An approximation (should be not 'they took' but 'they anchored off') of Polybius 1.53.10 (web address 1). ↩
  3. 3Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Josephus, Jewish War 7.314 (part of his description of an inner wall built by the defenders of Masada: web address 2). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXVI. ↩

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Revision history8 revisions · last 23 Jan 2022
  1. added links — Catharine Roth
  2. cross-references — Catharine Roth
  3. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. expanded n.3 — David Whitehead
  6. Revised — David Whitehead
  7. tweaked tr; augmented n.3 — David Whitehead
  8. cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
  9. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“tossing motion; roadstead.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 21 November 2010. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/sigma/58>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/sigma/58>.

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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