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Headword:
*)afi/stwn
Adler number: alpha,4624
Translated headword: they were keeping away, they were driving away
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they were turning away, they were preventing. "The Romans were driving the barbarians away from the siege."[1]
Greek Original:*)afi/stwn: a)pe/trepon, a)pekw/luon. tou\s de\ barba/rous th=s poliorki/as a)fi/stwn oi( *(rwmai=oi.
Notes:
The headword verb is presumably extracted from the quotation given. It seems to be a late variant of the third person plural imperfect active of
a)fi/sthmi, attested with either paroxytone or perispomenon accentuation.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.17.10; on the Avar siege of Adrianople, lifted by the Romans in the summer of 587; cf. de Boor (104) and Whitby (68). On the Avars, see generally
alpha 18 note. Adrianople (
Hadrianoupolis) is the modern-day city of Edirne in European Turkey; cf. Barrington Atlas map 51 grid H1.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 June 2001@22:50:40.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 5 June 2001@03:39:17.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 28 August 2002@09:29:22.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 7 May 2012@07:15:43.
David Whitehead on 17 January 2014@09:22:10.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@00:27:03.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 28 December 2015@22:51:39.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography and cross-reference) on 28 January 2025@12:32:45.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 29 January 2025@11:50:58.
Ronald Allen (added headword phrase after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 30 January 2025@11:40:20.
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