Ξυννενημένων

heaped together

Translated by James L. P. Butrica ✝21 Feb 2000Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 20 words

Translation

[Meaning ones which have been] piled-up.1
Thucydides [writes]: "the odours of the corpses heaped together upon each other were intolerable."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ξυννενημένων· σεσωρευμένων. Θουκυδίδης· τῶν νεκρῶν ὁμοῦ ἐπ' ἀλλήλοις ξυννενημένων ὀσμαὶ ἦσαν οὐκ ἀνεκτοί.

Betacode
*cunnenhme/nwn: seswreume/nwn. *qoukudi/dhs: tw=n nekrw=n o(mou= e)p' a)llh/lois cunnenhme/nwn o)smai\ h)=san ou)k a)nektoi/. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is perfect middle/passive participle, masculine genitive plural, of cunne/w. ↩
  2. 2Thucydides 7.87.2 (on the Athenian dead at Syracuse), with the gloss of the scholia there. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 19 Jun 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
  3. supplied headword; added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — James L. P. Butrica ✝

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