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Headword:
*mete/wra
Adler number: mu,764
Translated headword: lifted-up, haughty
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] lofty [ones].[1]
Agathias [writes]: "all the townships of Italy were lifted-up and agitated."[2] Meaning ready to face an attack.[2]
*mete/wra: u(yhla/. *)agaqi/as: ta\ de\ th=s *)itali/as poli/smata mete/wra h)=n a(/panta kai\ dedonhme/na. a)nti\ tou= e(/toima pro\s e)pixei/rhsin.
Notes:
[1] Neuter nominative plural of
mete/wros, presumably extracted from the quotation given; cf. in any event
mu 770,
mu 772,
mu 773,
mu 774.
*mete/wros comes from
meth/oros (
mu 788) by quantitative metathesis.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 2.6, on civilian anxiety in Italy prior to the Battle of the Volturnus (Battle of
Capua) in 554 CE; cf. Frendo (37). For further context, see
delta 506,
epsilon 953, and
lambda 387.
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 January 2006@22:00:52.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (tweaked headword and tr; another keyword) on 23 January 2006@03:06:53.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 19 May 2013@09:21:12.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 19 May 2013@17:08:30.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 11 November 2023@12:38:06.
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