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Headword:
*mu/staka
Adler number: mu,1483
Translated headword: upper lip; moustache
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the lip.
"[sc. The emperor Maurice] appointed John the Moustached, and voted [sc. Drocton] the Lombard [sc. to be second-in-command]."[2]
See in the [entry] aponoia.[3]
Greek Original:*mu/staka: to\ xei=los. *)iwa/nnhn to\n *musta/kwna paresth/sato, kai\ xeirotonei= to\n *loggi/bardon. zh/tei e)n tw=| a)po/noia.
Notes:
The headword is in the accusative case, evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps
Eubulus fr. 113 Kock, now 112 K.-A., though there are other possibilities).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.17.8, on John's appointment as general in Thrace (587); cf. de Boor (104) and Whitby (67). On Maurice, see
mu 294 generally. On John, see PLRE IIIb s.v. Ioannes(101). On Drocton (actually a Swabian, but captured as a boy and raised by Lombards), see PLRE IIIa s.v. Droctulfus(1).
[3] For more about facial hair [
alpha 3460].
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)
Keywords: biography; clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 July 2009@05:20:17.
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