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Headword:
Χαράκωμα
Adler number: chi,93
Translated headword: stockade
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [construction] which some used to build round a camp, for safety. So
Demosthenes [sc. uses the word].[1]
And
Menander [says] "for many left the palisade and were sacking the villages".[2]
Χαράκωμα: ὃ περιεβάλλοντό τινες στρατοπέδῳ ἐπὶ σωτηρίᾳ. ὡς Δημοσθένης. καὶ Μένανδρος: πολλοὶ γὰρ ἐκλελοιπότες τὸν χάρακα τὰς κώμας ἐπόρθουν.
Notes:
From Harpokration s.v.
χάρακα : sic, i.e. the accusative case of
charax (
chi 92,
chi 96,
chi 97,
chi 98); for the Suda's
χαράκωμα , see already at
chi 92.
[1]
Demosthenes 6.23, cf. 18.87.
[2] Claimed by R.C. Blockley as a stray fragment (no.43 in his numbering) of the late historian
Menander Protector. In fact, from his namesake the comic poet:
Menander,
Aspis 30-1.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 December 2000@06:54:33.
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