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Headword:
*)/emmisqoi
Adler number: epsilon,988
Translated headword: hired [men], mercenaries
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] those who are due to receive pay.[1] "The Huns became no less mercenaries when they were looting the property of the Romans."[2]
Greek Original:*)/emmisqoi: oi( o)fei/lontes labei=n misqo/n. oi( de\ *ou)=nnoi ou)de/n ti h(=sson e)/mmisqoi e)gi/nonto lhi+zo/menoi ta\ *(rwmai/wn.
Notes:
[1] Nominative plural of this adjective, presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as an approximation of
Procopius,
Secret History 11.7 (web address 1).
Procopius describes how Justinian (cf.
iota 446 generally) paid bounties to Hun chieftains to secure peace, but that they continued to pillage--even within the Roman empire--while still collecting monetary rewards from the emperor when the raids were finished; cf. Kaldellis (50-51).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 February 2007@11:11:50.
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