Σκιωρεῖται
Skioreitai, Skioritai, Skiritai, Sciritae
Translated by David Whitehead18 Dec 2002Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
An Arcadian troop of six hundred men, which in wars1 engages first and withdraws last.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκιωρεῖται· λόχος ἀνδρῶν ἑξακοσίων Ἀρκαδικός, ὁ ἀρχόμενός τε ἐν τοῖς πολεμίοις καὶ τελευταῖος ἀναχωρῶν.
Betacode
*skiwrei=tai: lo/xos a)ndrw=n e(cakosi/wn *)arkadiko/s, o( a)rxo/meno/s te e)n toi=s polemi/ois kai\ teleutai=os a)naxwrw=n.
Notes (1)
- Same entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon s.v.
*skiri=tai (the correct form -- both Photius sigma346 Theodoridis s.v.*skiwri=tai and the Suda distort it).
The Skiritai were more exactly, however, a light-armed division of the classical *Spartan* army, deriving their name from the town of Skiris in Arcadia (a Spartan dependency). See e.g. Thucydides 5.67ff; Xenophon, Hellenica 5.2.24, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians 12.3; Diodorus Siculus 15.32. - 1Thus Timaeus. The lexica miscopy (or misremember)
pole/mois aspolemi/ois . ↩
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