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Headword:
*(ekasta/tw
Adler number: epsilon,355
Translated headword: farthest away, very far away
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] most/very distant.[1]
Procopius [writes]: "[they] being very far from the plot of the barbarian."[2]
*(ekasta/tw: porrwta/tw. *proko/pios: e(kasta/tw th=s tou= barba/rou e)piboulh=s o)/ntes.
Notes:
[1] The headword is superlative of the adverb
e(ka/s (
epsilon 354); cf. scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 10.113, where it occurs; also
Hesychius epsilon1253.
[2]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 3.2.20 (web address 1), on the story--almost certainly apocryphal--of Roman senators unaware of Alaric's ruse to gain entrance into Rome (August 410 CE); cf. Kaldellis (146-147). On Alaric, Visigothic military leader, ca. 391-410, see PLRE II s.v. Alaricus(1).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, (Cambridge 1980)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 July 2006@18:27:27.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 12 July 2006@04:05:03.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 12 July 2006@11:22:31.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 31 July 2012@06:54:46.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 7 December 2015@08:31:15.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 24 January 2024@12:16:13.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added keywords, added link) on 24 January 2024@12:47:29.
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