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Headword:
*)io/beioi
Adler number: iota,403
Translated headword: Jovians
Vetting Status: high
Translation: and Herculeans: names of military dispositions.[1] For certain units were named after a deity. For 'Jove' [is] Zeus among Italians,[2] and 'Herculius' Heracles.
Greek Original:*)io/beioi kai\ *(erkou/leioi: o)no/mata ta/cewn. ta/gmata ga/r tina h)=san dai/monos e)pw/numa. *)io/bis ga\r para\ *)italoi=s o( *zeu/s, *(erkou/lios de\ o( *(hraklh=s.
Notes:
[1] In late antiquity. Mentioned by
Eunapius -- to whom the present material was once, erroneously, attributed (the correct attribution, by Bidez, is thought to be to Philostorgius: see Adler's addenda) -- and
Zosimus.
[2] So already
iota 402.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 May 2003@08:56:50.
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