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Headword:
Ὀρθοί
Adler number: omicron,589
Translated headword: upright, erect, acute, excited
Vetting Status: low
Translation: [They] having been struck with panic.[1] "When the Romans learned that Hannibal was besieging their forces, they were all excited by concerns and in great fear, as of the impending crisis stretching everything to the limit."[2]
Greek Original:Ὀρθοί: ἐκπεπληγμένοι. οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι μαθόντες ὅτι Ἀννίβας πολιορκεῖ τὰς δυνάμεις, ὀρθοὶ ταῖς διανοίαις καὶ περίφοβοι πάντες ἦσαν, ὡς καὶ πρὸς τὰ ὅλα διατεινούσης τῆς ἐνεστηκυίας κρίσεως.
Notes:
The headword is a masculine adjective in the nominative (and vocative) plural; see generally LSJ s.v.
ὀρθός, -ή, -όν and cf.
iota 238,
omicron 568,
omicron 569,
omicron 570,
omicron 571, and
omicron 578.
[1] The gloss is the perfect middle-passive participle, masculine nominative (and vocative) plural, of the verb
ἐκπλησσω (
I expel, e.g. balanced judgment); see LSJ s.v.
[2] Quoted approximately from
Polybius 9.5.4 (web address 1) regarding Hannibal's (OCD(3) s.v. and
alpha 2452) siege of
Capua (Barrington
Atlas Map 44 Grid F3) during the Second Punic War (218-201 BCE); Walbank, pp. 118-121. In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that ms F omitted the quotation. Also, ms A reads
διανοίας ,
through concern (so Adler). Finally, Adler observes that ms S reads
περὶ for
πρὸς :
stretching to the limit about everything.
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. II, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 20 May 2010@02:14:27.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 20 May 2010@03:30:34.
David Whitehead (typo, noticed by the translator) on 8 June 2010@03:24:38.
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