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Headword:
*)apolego/menos
Adler number: alpha,3380
Translated headword: declining (an offer)
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] refusing.[1]
Polybius [writes]: "he refused the Achaeans, declining the command."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the neuter plural active]
a)pole/gonta, [meaning] forbidding,[3] turning away. "And he wrote letters forbidding the envoys outright ever to surrender the strongholds to the Persians."[4]
*)apolego/menos: paraitou/menos. *polu/bios: o( de\ parh|tei=to tou\s *)axaiou\s a)polego/menos th\n a)rxh/n. kai\ *)apole/gonta, a)pagoreu/onta, a)potre/ponta. gra/mmata/ te a)/ntikrus a)pole/gonta toi=s pre/sbesin e)/grafe, mhdamw=s proi/+esqai ta\ frou/ria *pe/rsais.
Notes:
[1] cf. already
alpha 3126; and cf. also
Photius alpha2551 Theodoridis, attributing
a)pole/gomai (with a corresponding gloss) to
Pherecrates (fr. 225 K.-A.)
[2]
Polybius fr. 16 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 515) that the quotation is also found in the
Lexicon Vindobonense.
[3] cf. already
alpha 3124,
alpha 3125, and again
alpha 3498.
[4]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 1.22.11 (web address 1), in early 532 CE, the emperor Justinian (cf.
iota 446) orders his ambassadors to not give up the fortresses in Lazike (Colchis; cf.
kappa 1979) to the Persian king Chosroes (cf.
chi 418); see Kaldellis (57) and additional context at
alpha 3313.
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 February 2001@10:11:25.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; augmented notes; added keywords) on 18 March 2001@09:12:28.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 21 August 2002@05:22:02.
David Whitehead (more keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 3 April 2012@05:59:36.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; another keyword) on 26 December 2014@04:47:10.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography) on 30 July 2018@23:17:10.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 31 July 2018@17:56:20.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4, added to bibliography, added cross-references, added link) on 29 December 2023@11:14:51.
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