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Headword:
*)anantagw/nistos
Adler number: alpha,1977
Translated headword: unrivalled
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] unconquerable.
"The attack of the Romans was unrivalled and forbidding to those who met it."[1]
Greek Original:*)anantagw/nistos: a)katama/xhtos. a)nantagw/nistos h)=n h( *(rwmai/wn o(rmh\ kai\ dusa/nthtos toi=s e)ntugxa/nousin.
Notes:
Similar entry in
Hesychius. The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given (though does also occur in several earlier writers, including Lucian and Arrian).
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.6.13, on the Roman army during the Solachon (cf.
alpha 141 note) campaign of 586; cf. de Boor (81) and Whitby (51).
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: definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 May 2001@10:01:50.
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