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Headword: Throos
Adler number: theta,509
Translated headword: report
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] rumour.[1]
"A report reached [the] Persians, to the effect that [the Turks' envoys] were perishing in the suffocating drought".[2]
Greek Original:
Throos: hê phêmê. throus de ephoitêse Persais, hôs diôlonto tôi pnigêrôi auchmôi.
Notes:
[1] For this sense of the headword -- again, in its contracted form, at theta 510 -- see LSJ s.v., II (web address 1); and cf. at lambda 726.
[2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 10.1 Blockley (112-113), on the aftermath of Turkish envoys to Persia having been poisoned to death on Chosroes's (cf. chi 418 generally) orders during their embassy of 567-568. Find further excerpts from this fragment at pi 88, pi 120, and omega 116.
Reference:
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; food; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 February 2008@08:47:53.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 27 February 2008@12:22:59.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 28 February 2008@03:21:49.
David Whitehead (updated ref) on 3 January 2012@06:12:52.
David Whitehead on 6 January 2013@09:40:13.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-reference, and keyword) on 8 October 2024@12:31:54.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.2) on 9 October 2024@11:54:55.

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