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Headword:
*mermero/hs
Adler number: mu,637
Translated headword: Mermeroes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.[1]
"[...] Mermeroes to point out to us, since it is not a remarkable country, nor even worth fighting for, nor a task for a royal expedition; but one of its peoples are amongst those near the
Caucasus".[2]
*mermero/hs: o)/noma ku/rion. to\n *mermero/hn h(mi=n shma=nai, w(s ou)k e)/stin a)cio/logos h( xw/ra, ou)de\ mh\n perima/xhtos, ou)de\ basilikh=s e)/rgon e)kstratia=s, a)ll' e(\n u(pa/rxei tw=n e)qnw=n tw=n peri\ to\n *kau/kason.
Notes:
[1] That of a Sasanian general, Mihr-Mihroe in Middle Persian. Cf.
pi 2201.
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley (80-81, fr. 11 FHG (4.215)); already at
alpha 2811.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 August 2006@06:44:03.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (set status) on 9 August 2006@11:12:27.
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and tr; modified notes and keywords accordingly) on 10 August 2006@03:27:38.
David Whitehead on 16 May 2013@06:31:36.
Catharine Roth (expanded note, with cross-reference) on 23 October 2021@01:09:10.
Ronald Allen (augmented n.2, added bibliography) on 18 October 2024@12:33:05.
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