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Headword:
*leipotaci/ou
Adler number: lambda,387
Translated headword: desertion
Vetting Status: high
Translation: and [sc. also attested is the related term]
leipota/kths, [meaning] one who flees war.[1]
Agathias [writes]: "[Sindual] thought it [would be] something shameful and ignoble if, with [so great] a war under way, he and those around him should be convicted of desertion."[2] "Heraclius the Roman emperor used to impose penalties of [= for] desertion on those straying from Roman power."[3]
*leipotaci/ou: kai\ *leipota/kths, o( fugopo/lemos. *)agaqi/as: o( de\ ai)sxro/n ti h(gei=to kai\ a)genne/s, ei) pole/mou cunesthko/tos, au)to/s te kai\ oi( a)mf' au)to\n leipotaci/ou a(loi=en. o(/ti *(hra/kleios o( *(rwmai/wn basileu\s leipotaci/ou poina\s tou\s planh/tas th=s *(rwmai+kh=s duna/mews ei)sepra/tteto.
Notes:
The unglossed primary headword is in the genitive case, evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps, though not necessarily, the second quotation given here).
cf. generally
lambda 384,
lambda 385,
lambda 386,
lambda 591.
[1] cf. already
lambda 386.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 2.7.6. The leader of the Heruli (cf.
epsilon 901 and
epsilon 3058) contingent supporting the Romans at the Battle of the Volturnus (Battle of
Capua) in 554 CE, Sindual (see PLRE IIIb s.v.) ruminates on the situation in which his men momentarily refuse to fight as the battle commences; cf. Frendo (39) and additional context at
delta 506 and
epsilon 953.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.18.26; cf.
pi 1689. On Heraclius, see generally
eta 465.
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; law; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 May 2008@09:30:14.
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