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Headword: *)epentrufh/santos
Adler number: epsilon,2058
Translated headword: treating with insolence
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he] making sport of.[1] "[...] defiantly saying other, unbearable things about the receiving of the gold and treating them with insolence [...]."[2]
Greek Original:
*)epentrufh/santos: katapolau/santos. e(/tera/ te ou)k a)nekta\ peri\ th\n tou= xrusi/ou para/lhyin katauqadisame/nou kai\ e)pentrufh/santos au)toi=s.
Notes:
[1] The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is aorist participle, masculine genitive singular, of the verb e)pentrufa/w.
[2] From Menander Protector fr. 23.1 Blockley (198-199, = Excerpta de Legationibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 16.15 (p. 210.17-18)), on Mebod's treatment of Roman envoys Trajan and Zacharias during their embassy in early 575 (or late 574). On the Persian representative Mebod see PLRE IIIb s.v. Mebodes(2). On Trajan see PLRE IIIb s.v. Traianus(3). On Zacharias see PLRE IIIb s.v. Zacharias(2).
References:
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; historiography; history; law
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 March 2007@10:17:21.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 March 2007@11:16:02.
David Whitehead (updated ref) on 3 January 2012@05:46:28.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 6 October 2012@07:31:47.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography) on 18 September 2024@12:31:42.

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