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Headword:
Mediolanon
Adler number: mu,405
Translated headword: Mediolanon, Mediolanum, Milan
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A very populous city, which Attila captured and enslaved.[1] When he saw in a picture the Roman emperors seated on golden thrones, with the dead Skythians lying before their feet, he sought out an artist and ordered him to to depict [him, Attila] on a chair, with the Roman emperors carrying sacks on their shoulders and pouring out gold before his feet.
Greek Original:Mediolanon: poluanthrôpos polis, hên katalabôn Attêlas êndrapodisato. hôs de eiden en graphêi tous men Rhômaiôn basileis epi chrusôn thronôn kathêmenous, Skuthas de anêirêmenous kai pro tôn sphôn podôn keimenous, zêtêsas zôgraphon ekeleusen hauton men graphein epi thakou, tous de Rhômaiôn basileis kôrukous pherein epi tôn ômôn kai chruson pro tôn hautou cheein podôn.
Notes:
On Mediolanum/
Milan see
Strabo 5.1.6 (4.2.1 refers to a different Mediolanum, in Aquitaine; cf.
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.), and generally OCD(4) p.923. The entry from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites may be reached via web address 1.
The material of the present entry is copied from here to
kappa 2123 (q.v.).
[1] In 452 CE. For Attila cf.
alpha 4351,
zeta 29.
Web address 1
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 September 2001@01:55:33.
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