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Headword: *)/wrgwn
Adler number: omega,165
Translated headword: they were swelling, they were eager
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"But they were swelling with eagerness to obtain one another's good opinion."[1]
And elsewhere: "they were eager to come to grips with the enemy."[2]
Greek Original:
*)/wrgwn: oi( de\ kai\ proskth/sasqai th\n a)llh/lwn do/can spoudh\n poiou/menoi w)/rgwn. kai\ au)=qis: oi( de\ w)/rgwn toi=s polemi/ois o(mo/se i)e/nai.
Notes:
The unglossed headword, illustrated by both of the quotations given, is the third person plural, imperfect, of o)rga/w; cf. omicron 502.
[1] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Cassius Dio 41.56.3. See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.XC.
[2] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 8.8.5 (web address 1); on Lazoi soldiers, allied with the Romans, prior to the Battle of the Hippis River; cf. Kaldellis (476-477). (For 'to come to grips' cf. generally omicron 283, omicron 284). On this crucial battle during the Lazic War (541-562), also see pi 2763. On Lazike (Kolchis), see kappa 1979.
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 September 2005@00:27:24.
Vetted by:
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added note number; set status) on 22 September 2005@12:14:01.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 25 September 2005@05:52:06.
David Whitehead (source identification) on 11 April 2011@10:49:38.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 11 October 2011@06:57:19.
David Whitehead (x-ref; another keyword; tweaking) on 1 November 2013@05:57:03.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and link) on 24 April 2024@11:33:30.

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