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Headword:
*)ekkrouo/menos
Adler number: epsilon,615
Translated headword: removing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] extending, turning aside.[1] "[Totila] stopped in the space between the armies, not intending single combat, but removing this opportunity for his opponents."[2]
Greek Original:*)ekkrouo/menos: parektei/nwn, paratre/pwn. o( de\ e)/sth e)n metaixmi/w| ou) monomaxh/swn, a)lla\ to\n kairo\n tou=ton toi=s e)nanti/ois e)kkrouo/menos.
Notes:
Equivalent entry in ps.-
Zonaras, though only the relevant second half of the quotation is given there.
cf.
epsilon 614.
[1] The headword participle, from the verb
e)kkrou/w in the middle voice, is presumably extracted from the quotation given. (The first of the two glosses on it appears to misunderstand it.)
[2]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.31.17 (web address 1) -- which however has the future active participle
e)kkrou/swn; cf. Kaldellis (533). For Totila see
tau 879. On the Battle of Taginae (Busta Gallorum) in 552 CE, in which Totila attempted this delaying tactic, see also
alpha 3124 note.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 January 2007@00:38:19.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (headword; another keyword; cosmetics) on 16 January 2007@03:03:30.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; cosmetics) on 8 August 2012@09:33:01.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 11 December 2015@03:47:51.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added link) on 27 January 2024@12:33:39.
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