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Headword:
*au)/ch
Adler number: alpha,4451
Translated headword: increase
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] incrementation.[1]
"[...] not to attack them, since they had attained the heights of power, but to prevent with all his strength their increase."[2]
Greek Original:*au)/ch: au)/chsis. mh\ e)fie/nai au)toi=s e)pi\ mega/la duna/mews ai)rome/nois, a)lla\ panti\ sqe/nei th\n au)/chn au)tw=n kolou/ein.
Notes:
cf.
alpha 4452.
[1] Same or similar glossing elsewhere.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 1.5 (p.24 Niebuhr), which has not 'them' but is specific: 'Romans'. On their embassy in 552 CE to the young Theudobald, king of the Franks at Metz, Goth ambassadors urge him to defend them against further subjugation by the Romans; cf. Frendo (13-14).
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: William Hutton on 25 March 2002@03:20:24.
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