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Headword:
*di/aulos
Adler number: delta,806
Translated headword: double-stretch
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a place two stades in length. Or a measure of 200 cubits.[1]
A 'double-stretch' [is] also the long circuit.
"[Justinian's headless body seemed] to make these veritable double-stretches."[2]
Greek Original:*di/aulos: o( dista/dios to/pos. h)\ me/tron ph/xewn s1#. *di/aulos kai\ h( makra\ peri/odos. tou/tous dh\ tou\s makrou\s diau/lous poiei=sqai.
Notes:
See also
delta 807.
[1] There seems to be an error (of transmission?) here: the second distance is only approx. a quarter of the first.
[2] A close approximation (the verb should be active
poiei=n, not
poiei=sqai) of
Procopius,
Secret History 12.21 (web address 1). As part of his commentary on the demonic nature of Justinian (cf.
iota 446),
Procopius describes an eyewitness report of the emperor's head vanishing while his body continued to wander to and fro in the palace; cf. Kaldellis (59).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; biography; definition; historiography; imagery; science and technology
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 January 2004@21:03:38.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (supplied notes; added a keyword; cosmetics) on 22 January 2004@03:54:40.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; tweaks and cosmetics) on 2 July 2012@10:24:06.
David Whitehead on 2 July 2012@10:24:48.
David Whitehead (coding and other cosmetics) on 30 October 2015@07:55:27.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 28 July 2016@21:44:17.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-reference, and link) on 18 May 2024@11:33:24.
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