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Headword:
*)egku/klios
Adler number: epsilon,134
Translated headword: cyclical, periodic
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] the annual giving of money.
"And when the Khagan, the leader of the Avars,[1] asked for the cyclical wealth, which they would get each year from the Romans [...]".[2]
And elsewhere: "the general made the cyclical distributions of money to them."[3] Theophylact Simocatta [says this].
And elsewhere: "the cyclical largess[4] of money was poured out for the Roman corps."[5]
Poetry is also called cyclical.[6]
Greek Original:*)egku/klios: h( e)th/sios tw=n xrhma/twn do/sis. tou= de\ *xaga/nou tou= h(gemo/nos tw=n *)aba/rwn e)caitou=ntos to\n e)gku/klion plou=ton, o(\n a)n' e)/tos e(/kaston para\ *(rwmai/wn e)la/mbanon. kai\ au)=qis: o( de\ strathgo\s ta\s e)gkukli/ous dianoma\s tw=n xrhma/twn au)toi=s e)poih/sato. *qeofu/laktos *simoka/ths. kai\ au)=qis: h( e)gku/klios tw=n xrhma/twn e)pi/dosis tw=| *(rwmaikw=| e)xei=to sunta/gmati. *)egku/klia le/getai kai\ ta\ poihtika/.
Notes:
For this adjective cf.
epsilon 133.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 7.8.2, says that the Avars (
*)/abaroi) called their leaders Khagans or Khans (
*xaga/noi: see
chi 2,
chi 3).
[2] The use of
e)gku/klion plou=ton in Theophylact Simocatta in
Histories 1.8.7-8 confirms that this is a fragment, or more likely an adaptation, from him -- as are the next two extracts also (see notes 3 and 5 below).
[3] cf. Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 6.6.4:
ta\s duna/meis diariqmhsa/menos, ta\s e)gkukli/ous tw=n xrhma/twn au)toi=s dianoma\s e)poih/sato.
[4] An
e)pi/dosis or
donativum was a bonus, usually of money, given out to soldiers over and above their wages in order to encourage loyalty. Here the general seems to have made an annual payment of this sort; this is similar to the way modern companies will give a Christmas bonus to keep employees happy.
[5] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.10.5.
[6] Likewise in other lexica (e.g.
Photius epsilon68), and cf. the
scholia to Gregory of Nazianzus PG 36.914c (on the genitive plural in G.'s speech
In praise of Athanasius).
Reference:
Wirth, P. Theophylacti Simocattae historiae, Leipzig: Teubner, 1887 (repr. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1972)
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; economics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; poetry; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Abram Ring on 29 November 2005@08:36:02.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (restored pre-translation vetting status) on 29 November 2005@08:38:07.
David Whitehead (tweaked translation and n.1) on 30 November 2005@04:49:10.
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