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Headword:
Ψυχομαχοῦντες
Adler number: psi,169
Translated headword: fighting for their lives
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Polybius [writes]: "the Romans, fighting for their lives, had for nearly 15 years kept entirely away from naval activity".[1] "Most of the subsequent undertaking was a matter of fighting with resolve".[2] A battle in the cold.[3]
Greek Original:Ψυχομαχοῦντες: Πολύβιος: οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι ψυχομαχοῦντες, σχεδὸν ἢ ιε# ἔτη τῶν κατὰ θάλασσαν πραγμάτων ὁλοσχερῶς ἀφεστηκότες. ἦν δὲ καὶ τῆς ὕστερον ἐπιβολῆς τὸ πλεῖον ψυχομαχία. περὶ τὸ ψῦχος μάχη.
Notes:
The headword participle is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1]
Polybius 1.59.1, who says five years (and in fact should have said six). See web address 1.
[2]
Polybius 1.59.6, as construed by Walbank 123 (which gives the verb a meaning different from that in the earlier passage).
[3] So the transmitted text,
περὶ τὸ ψῦχος ; but in the 1543
Basel edition of the Suda it is plausibly emended to
περὶ τῆς ψυχῆς , 'of life and death'.
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, i (Oxford 1957)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2001@06:54:24.
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