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Headword:
*(upagwga/s
Adler number: upsilon,140
Translated headword: retreats
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] drawings-back. "Both advances and retreats", says
Thucydides.[1]
And elsewhere: "and [they] being more than moderately afraid to move off into a retreat".[2] Meaning into a drawing-back.
*(upagwga/s: ta\s a)naxwrh/seis. diw/ceis te kai\ u(pagwga/s, fhsi\ *qoukudi/dhs. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ pe/ra tou= metri/ou deimai/nontas e)s u(pagwgh\n metani/stasqai. a)nti\ tou= u(panaxw/rhsin.
Notes:
The headword is accusative plural, evidently quoted from somewhere --
not (despite the impression given), the Thucydidean phrase proffered, which is nominative plural in the original. Perhaps, rather, the very similar one in
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.8.20 (web address 1); cf. Kaldellis (478).
[1]
Thucydides 3.97.3 (web address 2); cf.
upsilon 141.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 2.21 (68.12-13).
Agathias describes the panicked Roman retreat (555 CE) from the area around Telephis (in Lazike/
Kolchis, cf.
alpha 3484 note) as the Persian army led by Mihr-Mihroe (Mermeroes in Greek;
mu 637) advanced; cf. Frendo (54-55).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 26 July 2009@09:14:42.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 26 July 2009@09:30:37.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note, for clarity) on 9 August 2011@09:25:53.
David Whitehead on 20 November 2013@07:45:35.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@23:47:46.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 5 December 2023@12:20:50.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 5 December 2023@12:44:46.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 5 December 2023@18:03:43.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography and link principal note) on 13 April 2024@12:51:05.
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