Τειχιόεις
high-walled
Translated by David Whitehead7 Mar 2014Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] fortified.1
Thucydides made a distinction of [= between] walls and city; and it seems more valid to apply the expression 'city' to the houses.2
Thucydides made a distinction of [= between] walls and city; and it seems more valid to apply the expression 'city' to the houses.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τειχιόεις· ὁ τετειχισμένος. Τειχῶν καὶ πόλεως διαστολὴν ἐποιήσατο Θουκυδίδης· καὶ ἔοικε κυριωτέραν τῆς πόλεως τὴν λέξιν ἐπὶ τῶν οἰκιῶν λαμβάνειν.
Betacode
*teixio/eis: o( teteixisme/nos. *teixw=n kai\ po/lews diastolh\n e)poih/sato *qoukudi/dhs: kai\ e)/oike kuriwte/ran th=s po/lews th\n le/cin e)pi\ tw=n oi)kiw=n lamba/nein.
Notes (2)
- 1Ambrosian Lexicon 133 is comparable, according to Adler; and cf. also Etymologicum Magnum 756.15-18. The headword is an epic epithet. ↩
- 2From the scholia to Thucydides 1.89.3 (where the historian does not use the headword adjective but does describe in general terms the Athenians' rebuilding of their fortifications in 479 BCE, after the Persian occupation: 'for only small portions of the circuit-wall were still standing and the majority of the houses were in ruins'). ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 28 May 2016
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead