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Headword:
*)anh/koos
Adler number: alpha,2407
Translated headword: ignorant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "He was ignorant of liberal ideas and education. For when he went into the house of his tutor, he learned nothing else except to write his letters, and those [he wrote] rather poorly."[1]
Greek Original:*)anh/koos: lo/gwn e)leuqeri/wn kai\ paidei/as a)nh/koos h)=n. ou) ga\r a)/llo ou)de\n e)s grammatistou= foitw=n e)/maqen, o(/ti mh\ gra/mmata, kai\ tau=ta kaka\ kakw=s gra/yai.
Notes:
The headword adjective is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 1.24.12 (web address 1); cf.
gamma 422,
iota 469. On the praetorian prefect, John the Cappadocian; cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Ioannes(11) and Kaldellis (61-62).
References:
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; daily life; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 May 2001@19:29:26.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords) on 3 June 2001@09:04:49.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 12 August 2002@07:57:36.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 12 March 2012@10:21:42.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography n.1, added link) on 20 December 2023@11:54:56.
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