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Headword:
*(uperke/rwsis
Adler number: upsilon,317
Translated headword: outflanking
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Outflanking is [sc. the term used] when we outflank the enemy out of one part [= wing] only.
"Furthermore, they were able to make neither sorties with the horses nor outflankings, [...] being cut off by the army".[1]
Greek Original:*(uperke/rwsis: u(perke/rwsi/s e)stin, o(/tan e)k tou= e(te/rou me/rous mo/non u(pere/xwmen tw=n polemi/wn. a)lla\ ga\r ou)/te e)kdroma\s toi=s i(/ppois kai\ u(perkerw/seis poiei=sqai e)du/nanto, w(s dh\ a)peilhmme/noi tw=| strateu/mati.
Notes:
The spelling of this term is either
u(perke/rasis or (as here, presumably from the
Agathias passage)
u(perke/rwsis.
cf.
Asclepiodotus 10.18.
[1]
Agathias,
Histories 5.19.9, here abridged; cf. Frendo (155). A Hunnish cavalry detachment is entrapped and routed outside the Thracian village of Melantias (cf.
mu 463) by a much smaller Roman force led by the veteran Byzantine general Belisarius (cf.
beta 233). For further context, see
beta 532,
gamma 77, and
sigma 1513.
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: definition; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 April 2010@08:53:08.
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