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Headword: *)aph/lghsan
Adler number: alpha,3151
Translated headword: they grieved at
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"The whole populace [...] immediately grieved at the calamity and in lamentation raised their cries to heaven."[1] Meaning they mourned.
Greek Original:
*)aph/lghsan: o( de\ dh=mos a(/pas a)ph/lghsan to\ pa/qos eu)qu\s kai\ cu\n oi)mwgh=| a)ne/kragon ou)ra/nion o(/son. a)nti\ tou= w)|kti/santo.
Notes:
The headword is evidently extracted from the quotation given. The verb can also mean "put away sorrow:" see LSJ s.v. (web address 1).
[1] Procopius, Secret History 16.20 (web address 2); again, more briefly, at omicron 935. Procopius describes the protests that arose in Byzantion after the empress Theodora (cf. alpha 956 note) ordered the torture of a young nobleman of the Green faction (cf. alpha 3460 note) who had slandered her; cf. Kaldellis (74-75).
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 July 2000@15:06:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified and completed translation; added keyword; cosmetics) on 16 March 2001@06:00:20.
Catharine Roth on 16 March 2001@11:08:00.
David Whitehead (expanded notes) on 4 August 2010@06:13:31.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 29 March 2012@05:49:49.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 12 September 2015@12:23:20.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1; added bibliography, cross-references, keywords, and link) on 11 May 2024@10:54:53.
Ronald Allen (my typo) on 11 May 2024@11:12:54.

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