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Headword:
Axiologa
barê
Adler number: alpha,2811
Translated headword: noteworthy weights
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "So that we might send from the towers well-aimed [and] noteworthy weights of stones."[1]
"And [he] having strewn the roads with noteworthy stones."[2]
"And [he] having bridged the marshes with noteworthy coverings."[3] That is, attractive, large [ones].
And elsewhere: "[...] Mermeroes to point out to us, since it is not a remarkable country, nor even worth fighting for, nor a task for a royal expedition; but one of its peoples are amongst those near the
Caucasus."[4]
Axiologa barê: hôs an apo tôn purgôn pempômen hekêbolôtata axiologa lithôn barê. kai axiologois katastrôsas lithois tas hodous. kai eilêmasin axiologois tous hudrostatoumenous gephurôsas. toutestin euprepesi, megistois. kai authis: ton Mermeroên hêmin sêmanai, hôs ouk estin axiologos hê chôra, oude mên perimachêtos, oude basilikês ergon ekstrateias: all' hen huparchei tôn ethnôn tôn peri ton Kaukason.
Notes:
The headword phrase, in the neuter plural, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Synesius,
Letters 133.16 (with optative
pe/mpoimen). See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.XCVI. The same passage is quoted at
alpha 2621.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4]
Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley (80-81), the Persian king Chosroes (cf.
chi 418) explains his lack of designs on Suania to Justinian's envoy Petros. The time frame is 561-562; cf. Blockley (254 note 30). On Mermeroes cf.
mu 637 (and
pi 2201). On Justinian see
iota 446. On Petros (Petrus) cf.
pi 1406 and
pi 1408. Suania (Svaneti, Svanetia, Souania) is a mountainous region of the
Caucasus; cf.
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium s.v. Suania and Barrington Atlas map 87 grid H2.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
A.P. Kazhdan, ed. et al., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, (Oxford 1991)
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 November 2000@08:53:25.
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