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Headword:
*)asafei/a|
nukto\s
a)pollu/menos
Adler number: alpha,4129
Translated headword: killed in the obscurity of night
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Evidently [meaning that he was killed] beneath the darkest [part of] the night, in which one is not able to recognize someone. Whence also the [expression], "with the moon showing through the gloom." Thus it is written in the Martyrdom of the twenty thousand saints.[1]
Greek Original:*)asafei/a| nukto\s a)pollu/menos: u(po\ skoteinota/ths dhladh\ nukto\s, kaq' h(/n ti/s tina a)nagnwri/sai ou) du/natai. o(/qen kai\ to\, selh/nhs to\n zo/fon diasafou/shs. ou(/tws ge/graptai e)n tw=| marturi/w| tw=n a(gi/wn dismuri/wn.
Notes:
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in three of the manuscripts.
[1] Symeon Metaphrastes, PG 116.1077c; again at
delta 746. (The headword phrase itself is unidentifiable.)
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; imagery; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 December 2001@15:07:52.
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