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Headword:
Ἐγκατελέγησαν
λίθοι
Adler number: epsilon,77
Translated headword: stones were laid in
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Meaning were built in.[1]
And
Homer [writes]: "and laying dry-stone walls."[2]
Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοι: ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐγκατῳκοδομήθησαν. καὶ Ὅμηρος: αἱμασιάς τε λέγων.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.93.2, where the phrase
λίθοι εἰργασμένοι ἐγκατελέγησαν ("prepared stones were laid in") occurs in the description of the Themistoclean rebuilding of the walls of
Athens in 479 BCE; cf.
delta 625.
[2]
Homer Odyssey 18.359. For the verb in this sense, "picking out stones for building walls", see LSJ s.v.
λέγω A.1.
Translated by: Marta Steele on 23 July 2006@17:05:00.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (rearranged translation, modified notes, set status) on 23 July 2006@18:05:51.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 24 July 2006@04:18:14.
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