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Headword: *mwrokakoh/qh
Adler number: mu,1340
Translated headword: foolish and malicious
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"And he was an evildoer and easily led astray, [sc. the kind of man] whom indeed they call foolish and malicious."[1]
Greek Original:
*mwrokakoh/qh: h)=n de\ kakou=rgo/s te kai\ eu)para/gwgos, o(\n dh\ mwrokakoh/qh kalou=si.
Notes:
The headword adjective -- a single word in the Greek -- is in the accusative singular, evidently extracted from the passage quoted. (It is attested nowhere else.)
[1] Procopius, Secret History 8.22 (web address 1), on Justinian (see generally iota 446); cf. Kaldellis (38). On Justinian's evil nature, see also alpha 1259, delta 806, epsiloniota 225, iota 726, and pi 2088.
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 6 August 2009@07:41:17.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 August 2009@08:12:45.
David Whitehead on 28 May 2013@05:36:02.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography, cross-references, and link n.1) on 22 June 2024@12:55:00.

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