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Headword: *kaqidru/sasqai
Adler number: kappa,94
Translated headword: to appoint, to instal
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to confirm.
"He sends out [John and Peter] having appointed [them] as ambassadors empowered to resolve the discussions concerning a treaty."[1]
Greek Original:
*kaqidru/sasqai: bebaiw=sai. e)kpe/mpei gou=n tou\s peri\ sumba/sews lo/gous dunatou\s kaqidru/sasqai kexeirotonhkw\s presbeuta/s.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is aorist middle infinitive of kaqidru/w; cf. kappa 92, kappa 93.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 3.15.5, on Tiberius Caesar (cf. tau 553 generally) initiating negotiations with the Persians in the winter of 576; cf. de Boor (141), Whitby (96), and pi 793. On John see alpha 3048 note. On Peter, Roman envoy to Persia in 576, see PLRE IIIb s.v. Petrus(17). The protracted negotiations are detailed by John of Ephesus, Ecclesiastical History III.vi.12; cf. Smith (200-201).
References:
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. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
R.P. Smith, trans., The Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History: John Bishop of Ephesus, (Oxford 1860, reprint 2015)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; politics
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 6 March 2008@22:58:24.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 7 March 2008@03:58:31.
David Whitehead on 21 January 2013@09:35:23.
David Whitehead (tweaked n.1) on 18 September 2013@04:48:45.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@14:31:06.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation, incorporating suggestions from Catharine Roth) on 4 April 2025@12:04:15.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography and cross-references) on 7 April 2025@13:07:38.

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