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Headword:
*kato/pin
Adler number: kappa,1087
Translated headword: behind
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] after this, from going behind [o)/pisqen].[1]
"But he came after the proper time; for he was not able to accomplish this completely."[2]
"The Roman [army] came behind its former glory."[3]
"To struggle and to set everything [else] behind the good and virtue [...]."[4]
Greek Original:*kato/pin: meta\ tau=ta, a)po\ tou= o)/pisqen i)e/nai. a)lla\ kato/pin h(=ke tou= kairou=: ou) ga\r oi(=o/s te e)ge/neto tou=to dianu/sai e)s te/leon. gi/netai kato/pin to\ *(rwmai+ko\n th=s prote/ras eu)klei/as. diagwni/zesqai kai\ tou= kalou= kai\ th=s a)reth=s kato/pin ti/qesqai pa/nta.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon, and in
scholia on Lucian (235.24 Rabe); see the references at
Photius kappa481 Theodoridis.
[2] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable. The first part of it is proverbial: see Tosi (cited under
alpha 378) no.1313.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.15.8, on the complete rout of the Roman army (in Armenia, summer of 577) under Justinian by the Persians under Tanchosdro; cf. de Boor (141-142), Whitby (96), and
alpha 3132. On Justinian, Roman general in the east 575-577, see PLRE IIIa s.v. Iustinianus(3). On Tanchosdro see
delta 1327 note. John of
Ephesus,
Ecclesiastical History III.vi.10, describes the Romans as having become overconfident from recent victories and being wholly unprepared for the Persian advance; cf. Smith (197-199).
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
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. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
R.P. Smith, trans., The Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History: John Bishop of Ephesus, (Oxford 1860, reprint 2015)
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 October 2008@01:44:11.
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