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Headword:
*sunqh/kh
Adler number: sigma,1588
Translated headword: pact, contract
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] agreement.
Xenophon [writes]: "the Greeks with Cyrus went up to meet the Persians and made pacts, after slaughtering a bull and a wolf and a boar and a ram; the Greeks dipped a sword into a shield, and the barbarians a lance, swearing not to betray each other but to be allies. The barbarians promised in addition that they would lead [the Greeks back] without deceit".[1]
*sunqh/kh: o(mologi/a. *cenofw=n: oi( de\ su\n *ku/rw| a)naba/ntes *(/ellhnes pro\s *pe/rsas sunqh/kas e)/qento, sfa/cantes tau=ron kai\ lu/kon kai\ ka/pron kai\ krio/n: ei)s a)spi/da ba/ptontes oi( me\n *(/ellhnes ci/fos, oi( de\ ba/rbaroi lo/gxhn, o)mo/santes, mh\ prodw/sein a)llh/lous, su/mmaxoi/ te e)/sesqai. oi( de\ ba/rbaroi prosw/mosan kai\ h(gh/sesqai a)do/lws.
Notes:
cf. generally
sigma 1587 and
sigma 1589.
[1] An approximation of
Xenophon,
Anabasis 2.2.8-9 (adding here a particular absurdity: wolves were not sacrificial beasts). See web address 1. The shield held the blood of the victims.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 November 2001@03:35:09.
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