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Headword: Αὐλῶνες
Adler number: alpha,4449
Translated headword: hollows
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Canyons, or flat places in the vicinity of mountains.[1]
"He set up a camp, seizing a certain hollow between his own camp and that of the enemy."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related participle, here feminine] αὐλωνίζουσα ["hollowing"], spending the night in a hollow.[3]
Greek Original:
Αὐλῶνες: φάραγγες, ἢ τόποι πλατεῖς περὶ τὰ ὄρη. ὁ δὲ κατεστρατοπέδευσε, λαβὼν αὐλῶνά τινα μεταξὺ τῆς αὑτοῦ καὶ τῶν πολεμίων στρατοπεδείας. καὶ Αὐλωνίζουσα, ἐν αὐλῶνι διάγουσα.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar material in other lexica.
[2] Polybius 11.32.1 (Scipio in Spain).
[3] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 23 March 2002@15:39:19.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 April 2002@07:04:23.
David Whitehead (added note) on 28 August 2002@03:16:51.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 March 2011@04:25:12.
David Whitehead on 30 April 2012@08:28:45.
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