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Headword:
*(upagwgh/
Adler number: upsilon,143
Translated headword: retreat
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] withdrawal.[1]
"To keep them from being quicker in retreat if they should choose to become cowards, [Narses] made them get off their horses."[2]
Greek Original:*(upagwgh/: u(poxw/rhsis. o(/pws mh\ e)qelokakou=ntes e)s u(pagwgh\n o)cu/teroi ei)=en, tw=n i(/ppwn a)pebi/basen.
Notes:
[1] cf.
upsilon 140; and see also
upsilon 141.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as an approximation of
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.31.5-6 (web address 1). See on this Theodoridis'
Photius edition, vol.II p.XCV. At the Battle of Taginae (Busta Gallorum, 552 CE), Byzantine general Narses (cf.
nu 42) deploys dismounted cavalry in the Roman center; cf. Kaldellis (532-533),
alpha 3124, and
epsilon 615.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
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Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 25 July 2009@08:30:33.
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