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Headword:
*)wni/ous
Adler number: omega,116
Translated headword: purchasable, at a price
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones] paid for; or valuable.[1]
Procopius [writes]: "[...] unless they obtain a purchasable safety by paying ransom [...]".[2]
Aelian [writes]: "and [the] jurors release him at a price."[3]
"[He] advises [them] to accept the Romans' [money] and to export the purchasable raw silk to them."[4]
*)wni/ous: a)gorastou/s: h)\ timi/ous. *proko/pios: ei) mh\ th\n swthri/an w)/nion kth/sontai lu/tra dido/ntes. *ai)liano/s: kai\ a)polu/ousi dikastai\ w)/nioi au)to/n. sumbouleu/ei a)spa/sasqai ta\ *(rwmai/wn kai\ par' au)tou\s w)/nion a)pokomi/zein th\n me/tacan.
Notes:
[1] cf.
omega 115 (and
Hesychius omega242, omega243) Here the headword is masculine accusative plural. It must be extracted from somewhere (but not any of the quotations given here); there are numerous possibilities.
[2]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 2.12.1 (web address 1), on the ransom demanded by Chosroes (cf.
chi 418) from the citizens of Chalkis [
Myth,
Place] [Myth, Place] (Chalcis ad Belum, in northern
Syria; cf.
alpha 3485 note); cf. Kaldellis (98). For additional background on the Persian army's invasion of the Roman east in 540 CE, see
alpha 465 note.
[3]
Aelian fr. 171b Domingo-Forasté (168 Hercher).
[4] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 10.1 Blockley (114-115), Sogdian ruler Maniakh's advice to Turkish khan Sizabul (probably in 568). On Sogdia, see
alpha 2962 note. On Maniakh, see PLRE IIIb s.v. Maniach. On Sizabul, see
epsilon 2425 note. On raw silk, see
sigma 336 and
sigma 337. Find further excerpts from this fragment at
theta 509,
pi 88, and
pi 120.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 September 2005@12:44:19.
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