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Headword:
*)aga/menos
Adler number: alpha,141
Translated headword: admiring, wondering at, marveling at
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone] being amazed at.[1]
"Admiring this man for his good courage they let him ride on the horse."[2]
Greek Original:*)aga/menos: qauma/zwn. a)ga/menoi tou=ton th=s eu)yuxi/as e)poxou=si tw=| i(/ppw|.
Notes:
The headword is present participle, masculine nominative singular, of
a)/gamai. Same or similar glossing in other lexica (references at
Photius alpha99 Theodoridis). The headword is evidently quoted from somewhere (other than the quotation given here, which has the corresponding plural); extant possibilities begin with
Xenophon and
Plato.
[1] cf.
alpha 138.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.6.4, on a badly wounded Roman soldier at the Battle of Solachon in 586; cf. de Boor (80), Whitby (50), and
lambda 272 end. The battle took place south of Dara (cf.
delta 68 note), in northern
Mesopotamia, the site of the present-day village of Saleh, Mardin Province, Turkey.
References:
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 28 March 2000@00:49:02.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 9 February 2001@10:43:58.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword) on 25 April 2002@04:22:39.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 23 December 2011@05:19:02.
David Whitehead on 16 August 2013@08:04:58.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note; added a keyword) on 4 April 2015@11:40:30.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 4 April 2015@23:28:28.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and keyword) on 3 December 2024@12:21:48.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 4 December 2024@01:19:57.
Ronald Allen (augmented and rearranged n.2) on 4 December 2024@11:54:44.
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