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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.
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