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Headword:
*)ofrua/zw
Adler number: omicron,1022
Translated headword: I am supercilious
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A verb.[1]
"Later he sent someone who was both supercilious and behaved with an indescribable kind of boastfulness".[2]
Greek Original:*)ofrua/zw: r(h=ma. o( de\ pe/mpei tina\ u(/steron, o)frua/zonta/ te kai\ a)lazonei/a| tini\ a)muqh/tw| e)xo/menon.
Notes:
[1] Implying, literally, raising the eyebrows; cf.
omicron 1027.
[2]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.11.4 (web address 1); in late 550 CE, the Persian king Chosroes (cf.
chi 418) sends the haughty Persian official Yazdgushnasp (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Isdigousnas Zich) as envoy to Justinian (cf.
iota 446); cf. Kaldellis (483).
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 October 2009@06:40:49.
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