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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]
Greek Original:*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; on the
general Heraclius (cf.
phi 349), after having been left in command of the eastern Roman army in late 587; cf. de Boor (109), Whitby (71), and
pi 1689. The Suda mistakenly inserts
o( *(rwmai/wn basileu\s into Theophylact's text. On the emperor Heraclius, son of the general, see generally
eta 465.
References:
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
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)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; law; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 May 2008@09:30:14.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (added cross-reference, set status) on 18 May 2008@19:34:09.
David Whitehead (typos) on 19 May 2008@03:03:15.
David Whitehead on 17 April 2013@05:53:02.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@14:58:16.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 1 November 2023@11:20:46.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 5 November 2023@01:41:37.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added to bibliography, added cross-reference) on 17 April 2025@10:54:34.
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