05-22-2009, 05:08 AM
That's the modern version of the word, while ???????? is the ancient version. From my exposure to Classical and Hellenistic history and epigraphy, I gather that this usually has the meaning of a fort or (by extension) a garrison, but I think it can also mean "citadel" or "fortress." However, in many Greek city-states the citadel was the acropolis, but ????????? had a much more specific meaning and definition (the fortified upper portion of a city which usually served as an important military, administrative, and religious centre).
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
