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Headword: Antixoon
Adler number: alpha,2688
Translated headword: adverse
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] opposed, hostile.
Herodotus [writes]: "and to collect an army adverse to [the] Persians."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the contracted form] a)nti/coun, [sc. likewise meaning] opposed.[2]
Agathias [writes]: "but he left, supposing nothing would be adverse."[3]
Greek Original:
Antixoon: enantion, polemion. Hêrodotos: kai straton sullegein antixoon Persêisi. kai Antixoun, enantion. Agathias: ho de echôrei, ouden antixoun esesthai hupotopêsas.
Notes:
The headword adjective is probably (though not demonstrably) extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Herodotus 6.7 (of what the participants in the Ionian Revolt resolve not to do; the emphasis in pezo\n me\n strato\n mhde/na sulle/gein ktl is to fight at sea, not on land). See web address 1.
[2] Presumably extracted from the Agathias passage which now follows.
[3] Agathias, Histories 1.14. During the Gothic War (535-554) in 553 CE, the Heruli military commander, Fulcaris--audacious, but also given to recklessness--assembles an irregular force of Heruli and Roman soldiers for an ill-fated attack (q.v. alpha 2764) on the Franks at Parma (in northern Italy, Barrington Atlas map 39 grid G4); cf. Frendo (22-23). On the Heruli, see epsilon 901 and epsilon 3058. On Fulcaris, see PLRE IIIa s.v.
References:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 November 2000@15:56:31.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 12 March 2001@03:41:15.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 14 August 2002@08:56:07.
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Catharine Roth (tweaked note, upgraded link) on 10 December 2013@01:49:58.
David Whitehead on 24 July 2015@09:19:15.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 24 September 2023@23:32:10.
Ronald Allen (added to bibliography n.3) on 12 November 2023@13:23:28.

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