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Headword:
*frenh/rhs
Adler number: phi,700
Translated headword: sound of mind
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] sensible, or in one's senses.[1]
Agathias [writes]: "there was a certain Armenian, sound of mind and, when required, fearless."[2]
And elsewhere: "Commodus was by nature not sound of mind and [...] not very good [or: brave] in military matters."[3]
*frenh/rhs: fro/nimos, h)\ para/frwn. *)agaqi/as: h)=n de/ tis *)arme/nios frenh/rhs kai\ e)n de/onti filoki/ndunos. kai\ au)=qis: o( de\ *ko/modos h)=n fu/sin te ou) frenh/rhs kai\ ou) ma/la ti a)gaqo\s ta\ polemika/.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 2.6, on Chanaranges (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Chanaranges(3)), a cavalry commander under Byzantine general Narses (cf.
nu 42) during the Gothic War (535-554); cf. Frendo (38). Chanaranges led Roman soldiers to seize a Frankish forage wagon, set it ablaze, and burn down a river bridge watchtower, setting off the Battle of the Volturnus (Battle of
Capua, 554 CE); cf.
delta 506 and
sigma 257.
[3] Quotation (already, more fully, at
kappa 1199) unidentifiable. For Commodus see generally
kappa 2007.
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 August 2012@10:08:31.
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