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Headword:
*pro/sxhma
Adler number: pi,2852
Translated headword: screen, cloak, pretext
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] disguise of one's character, or a pretense.[1]
"You always have no other pretext, [than] that [your father] died at my hand."[2]
"[...] for him going out in the order of a pretext, to engage neither with the Huns nor with their allies."[3]
Greek Original:*pro/sxhma: paraka/lumma tou= h)/qous, h)\ pro/fasis. ou)de\n a)/llo soi pro/sxhm' a)ei/, w(s e)c e)mou= te/qnhken. au)to\n ga\r e)n prosxh/matos moi/ra| e)cio/nta, mh/te *ou)/nnois mh/te toi=s e)kei/nwn summa/xois e)s xei=ras i)e/nai.
Notes:
(Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss AFV.)
See also
pi 2853.
[1] Likewise in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon; similarly in
Hesychius pi3940 and a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus (PG 36.1225c).
[2]
Sophocles,
Electra 525-6 (web address 1); Clytemnestra is speaking.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, according to Adler, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable, but evidently from late historiography. For the Huns see under
alpha 1019, etc.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 September 2013@01:13:52.
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