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Headword:
*)eph/reia
Adler number: epsilon,2206
Translated headword: insolence
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] harm/injury.[1]
Thucydides [writes]: "and they ordered them by way of insolence to take back the exiles."[2]
And elsewhere: "and he ordered them to keep watch so that no one who was present perchance from the other army would act insolently toward them."[3] Meaning would injure [them].
And elsewhere: "[...] so that the insolence in these matters would rightly seem to be an injustice against mankind for all time."[4]
But strictly,
e)ph/reia [means] a raid in war. [The word is formed] out of
*)/arhs, *)/arews.[5]
*)eph/reia: bla/bh. *qoukudi/dhs: tou/s te feu/gontas e)ke/leuon kat' e)ph/reian de/xesqai au)tou/s. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ parh/ggeile parafula/ssein, mh\ a)/ra pou/ tis a)po\ th=s a)/llhs stratia=s e)nw\n e)phrea/zoi au)toi=s. a)nti\ tou= bla/ptoi. kai\ au)=qis: w(/ste h( e)s tau=ta e)ph/reia ei)ko/tws a)\n a)di/khma me/ga ei)s tou\s a)nqrw/pous tou= panto\s ai)w=nos do/ceien ei)=nai. kuri/ws de\ *)eph/reia, h( tou= pole/mou katadromh/. e)k tou= *)/arhs, *)/arews.
Notes:
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (1493); and cf. also the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.26.3 (next note).
[2]
Thucydides 1.26.3 (web address 1).
[3] Quotation (already at
epsilon 1412) unidentifiable. It contains not the headword but a verbal derivative, for which see
epsilon 2204.
[4] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 7.22.11 (web address 2) =
Excerpta de legationibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 155.34-116.1. See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.XCIII. The quotation is from a letter Belisarius (cf.
beta 233) sent to Totila (cf.
tau 879), urging the Ostrogothic king not to raze Rome to the ground (early 547 CE); cf. Kaldellis (425).
[5] The nominative and genitive forms of the name of the god Ares (
alpha 3852).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: William Hutton on 12 September 2007@01:44:56.
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