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[Meaning] inspiration.
Polybius [writes]: "the Romans were filled with a sort of divine fervour, having fortified their zeal with irresistible strength".[1]

*)epi/pnoia: e)nqousiasmo/s. *polu/bios: oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi qei/as e)pipnoi/as tino\s e)peplh/rwnto th/n te proqumi/an a)nantagwni/stw| sqe/nei fraca/menoi.

[1] In Büttner-Wobst as Polybius fr. 44, but in fact (as Büttner-Wobst (520) and de Boor pointed out) an almost verbatim quotation of Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 5.5.1; cf. de Boor (196) and Whitby (138). For further background on Domitianus and his inspiring address (spring of 591) to Roman troops, see alpha 1277 and cross-references therein.

C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
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)

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