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Headword:
*)/hranos
Adler number: eta,478
Translated headword: keeper
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Paul the Silentiary [writes]: "be propitious to a daring [man], powerful keeper of the earth".[1] To the emperor Justinian in the description of the [church of the] Holy Wisdom.[2]
Greek Original:*)/hranos: *pau=los *selentia/rios: i(/laqi tolmh/enti megasqene\s h)/rane gai/hs. pro\s basile/a *)ioustiniano\n e)n th=| e)kfra/sei th=s a(gi/as *sofi/as.
Notes:
[1] Paul the Silentiary,
Ecphrasis 178. (P. is mentioned in
alpha 112 as a contemporary of
Agathias.)
[2] On Justinian and (H)agia Sophia, see also
iota 446.
Keywords: architecture; biography; Christianity; poetry; politics; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 September 2006@23:09:04.
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