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Headword:
*)/eskazen
Adler number: epsilon,3145
Translated headword: was limping, was wavering
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] was in doubt, was equivocating.[1]
"And he was wavering about what the contingents of the Romans intended, and whether they had spirits that were manly enough for a battle-line."[2]
Greek Original:*)/eskazen: e)nedoi/azen, a)mfe/ballen. o( de\ e)/skazen o(/pws e)/xei gnw/mhs ta\ tw=n *(rwmai/wn sunta/gmata, kai\ ei) a)rrenika\s e)/xousi ta\s yuxa\s ei)s para/tacin.
Notes:
[1] Same headword -- imperfect, third person singular, of
ska/zw -- but different, more literal gloss (
e)xw/lainen "was lame") in
Hesychius epsilon6223; and cf.
sigma 519.
[2] A version of Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.7.8; on the Roman general Romanus, assessing troops mustered in Colchis (cf.
kappa 1979) during the summer of 589; cf. de Boor (123) and Whitby (82); the editions print the verb there as
e)su/kazen "was scrutinizing". On Romanus see PLRE IIIb s.v. Romanus(4).
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)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Amelia Mathias on 3 October 2006@07:47:59.
Vetted by:William Hutton (modified translation, added note, keywords) on 3 October 2006@07:48:55.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 3 October 2006@08:39:51.
David Whitehead (augmneted notes) on 31 October 2012@04:36:58.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 18 August 2014@20:40:48.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography and cross-reference) on 8 March 2025@11:31:07.
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