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Headword:
*fqo/ros
Adler number: phi,513
Translated headword: destruction
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the masculine.[1]
"So much sought by him [Justinian] was always the destruction of men ..."[2]
And elsewhere: "a great destruction of bodies occurred."[3]
"For if it is necessary to understand the destruction at all, anyone who saw what happened then would have known it with certainty."[4]
Greek Original:*fqo/ros: a)rsenikw=s. ou(/tws h)=n au)tw=| katespoudasme/nos o( tw=n a)nqrw/pwn a)ei\ fqo/ros. kai\ au)=qis: polu\s de\ fqo/ros e)gi/neto tw=n swma/twn. ei) ga/r ti dei= noei=n to\n fqo/ron, to/t' a)\n i)dw/n tis to\ sumbai=non e)/gnw safw=s.
Notes:
[1] Sc. as contrasted with the feminine noun
fqora/. Both are related to the verb
fqei/rw (
phi 484).
[2]
Procopius,
Secret History 13.8 (web address 1); cf. Kaldellis (62). On Justinian see
iota 446 generally.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[4] As n. 3.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung II," Byzantinische Zeitung 23 (1914-1919) 53
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 January 2010@22:13:28.
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