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Headword: Φάκελλον
Adler number: phi,25
Translated headword: bundle
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Load, or [something] easily-taken.[1]
Thucydides [writes]: "carrying bundles of wood they began to throw them from the mound."[2]
And Josephus [writes]: "throwing bundles of dry wood around the place he set fire [to them]."[3]
Greek Original:
Φάκελλον: φορτίον, ἢ εὐάλωτον. Θουκυδίδης: φοροῦντες ὕλης φακέλλους παρέβαλλον ἀπὸ τοῦ χώματος. καὶ Ἰώσηπος: φακέλλους ὕλης ξηρᾶς περιβαλὼν τῷ χωρίῳ πῦρ ἐνῆκε.
Notes:
cf. phi 26, phi 27.
[1] Same or similar gloss in other lexica, and in a scholion on Thucydides 2.77.3 (see next note).
[2] Thucydides 2.77.3 (web address 1).
[3] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 5.249, abridged (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; botany; definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 June 2011@21:38:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 June 2011@03:39:59.
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