[1] The headword is masculine nominative singular of this adjective.
[2] Agathias, Histories 1.13 (here abridged). Prior to attacking the city of Luca (modern-day Lucca, in Tuscany, central Italy; Barrington Atlas map 41 grid C2) in the autumn of 553 CE, the Byzantine general Narses (cf. nu 42) released a group of Lucchesi hostages completely unharmed to the townspeople. Narses held the hope (which was ultimately futile) that the gesture would sway the city's loyalty from the Franks to the Romans and that he could thereby avoid a prolonged siege; cf. alpha 1709, beta 495, mu 707, and Frendo (19-21). A number of scholars have held doubts as to the veracity of Agathias's account; see Cameron (51), Ites (281), and Stein (606).
[3] More precisely, dhle/omai: see LSJ s.v., and cf. delta 402, delta 403, delta 404.