Ὑπονομηδόν
underground
Translated by David Whitehead14 Nov 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Thucydides [writes]: "the pipes, which carried drinking water into the city underground, they destroyed".1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὑπονομηδόν· Θουκυδίδης· τοὺς ὀχετούς, οἳ ἐς τὴν πόλιν ὑπονομηδὸν ποτοῦ ὕδατος ἠγμένοι ἦσαν, κατέστρεψαν.
Betacode
*(uponomhdo/n: *qoukudi/dhs: tou\s o)xetou/s, oi(\ e)s th\n po/lin u(ponomhdo\n potou= u(/datos h)gme/noi h)=san, kate/streyan.
Notes (1)
- The headword adverb is extracted from the quotation. (It occurs only there and in the scholia to the passage.)
- 1Thucydides 6.100.1 on the Athenians at Syracuse: web address 1. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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