Ζυγεῖν
to be in line, to march in line
Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo18 Jun 2005Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to be situated in a straight line in a file [stichos] [drawn up] in accordance with depth; for this is also properly called st[o]ichos.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ζυγεῖν· τὸ ἐπ' εὐθείας κεῖσθαι τῷ κατὰ βάθος στίχῳ· τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ κυρίως λέγεται στίχος.
Betacode
*zugei=n: to\ e)p' eu)qei/as kei=sqai tw=| kata\ ba/qos sti/xw|: tou=to ga\r kai\ kuri/ws le/getai sti/xos.
Notes (1)
- An entry taken from the Onomasticon Tacticon (26), but with an error (already noted in Stephanus s.v.
zugo/s ) -- because the definition there relates to the verbstoixei=n , 'to march in file', a manoeuvre opposite tozugei=n , 'to march in line'.
In Onomasticon tacticon 25 we find the definition that should have been used instead of this one: 'zugei=n means to be placed in a straight line following the front line, and to be in parallel lines'.
Aelian, Tactica 7, writes: 'we sayzugei=n to be in the same line, following the front line, with the men who are preceding or those who are at the rear, while we saystoixei=n to be in the same line, following the one which goes in depth, with the rear-guard leaders [ou)ragoi/ ] and the company-commanders [loxagoi/ ]'; cf. beta 28.
These same concepts are to be found in a military writer earlier than Aelian: Asclepiodotus 2.5-2.6. On the same matter see also delta 1257. - 1In order to make sense, this additional clause does need the reading stoichos (from ms F), not a repetition of stichos. ↩
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- Translated — Stefano Sanfilippo