Ξιφουλκία

sword-drawing

Translated by James L. P. Butrica ✝17 Feb 2000Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 15 words

Translation

"[... without which (sc. the toga)] they say that there is no excellence1 in sword-drawing."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ξιφουλκία. οὐκ εἶναί φασι ξιφουλκίας εὐμοιρίαν.

Betacode
*cifoulki/a. ou)k ei)=nai/ fasi cifoulki/as eu)moiri/an. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1Or: good fortune. ↩
  2. 2Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Synesius, Oratio de regno 20. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 13 Dec 2020
  1. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. source identification; another keyword — David Whitehead
  4. more keywords; raised status — David Whitehead
  5. supplied headword; added notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — James L. P. Butrica ✝

Cite this entry

“sword-drawing.” Suda On Line. Tr. James L. P. Butrica ✝. 17 February 2000. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/xi/77>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/xi/77>.

Translation by James L. P. Butrica ✝ 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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