Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for epsilon,1676 in Adler number:
Headword:
*)ec
e)fo/dou
Adler number: epsilon,1676
Translated headword: from [the first] approach
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] immediately, without trouble. "As [he] recognized that he was not able to take the city of Theodosios at the first attack, he withdrew."[1]
Greek Original:*)ec e)fo/dou: e)k tou= paraxrh=ma, xwri\s po/nou. w(s e)/gnw mh\ e)c e)fo/dou oi(=o/n te e)celei=n th\n *qeodosi/ou po/lin, a)naxwrei=.
Notes:
The headword phrase is presumably extracted from the quotation given (but is widely attested in earlier -- Hellenistic -- historiography).
[1]
Menander Protector fr. 18.6 Blockley (170-171). See generally LSJ s.v.
e)/fodos (C) II.1. In the spring of 576, Chosroes (see
chi 418 generally) approached Theodosiopolis (modern-day Erzurum, Turkey; cf. Barrington Atlas map 89 grid D1), disposed his army, but then withdrew without an attack from the heavily fortified Roman frontier town. Find further extracts from this fragment at
alpha 2330,
alpha 2906,
epsiloniota 267,
sigma 10, and
chi 123.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 June 2007@22:28:32.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search