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Headword:
Eukton
Adler number: epsilon,3550
Translated headword: prayed-for, wished-for
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] desired.
Agathias [writes]: "the Franks were pressing mercilessly, so as to capture Narses alive[1] and to bring on with little pain the prayed-for ending to the whole battle".[2]
Greek Original:Eukton: epithumêtikon. Agathias: hoi de Phrankoi apheidôs enekeinto, hôs ton Narsên zôgrêsantes kai ponôi xun brachei peras eukton epithêsontes hapanti tôi polemôi.
Notes:
The headword is either masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of the adjective
eu)kto/s; neuter accusative if it is extracted from the quotation given here, though there are plenty of earlier examples (
Euripides,
Xenophon,
Menander,
Josephus, Lucian, et al.).
[1] Read
zwgrh/sontes (future participle), from
Agathias, instead of the Suda's
zwgrh/santes (aorist). For Narses (478-573), of Armenian descent, eunuch and general during the reign of Justinian, see generally
nu 42); also under
alpha 112,
alpha 2394,
alpha 4094,
beta 490,
delta 579,
epsilon 917,
epsilon 2328,
epsilon 2631,
theta 99,
pi 1234,
pi 2311,
pi 3225,
sigma 1303 and
tau 753.
[2]
Agathias [
alpha 112],
Histories 38.24-6 (= 1.22 Niebuhr), on the Battle of
Ariminum (present-day Rimini, Italy; cf.
alpha 3884) in 553 CE. See also
alpha 202,
pi 110,
pi 1234, and Frendo (30-31).
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; military affairs; religion
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 18 March 2008@21:05:04.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (set status) on 19 March 2008@01:19:13.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 19 March 2008@04:42:32.
David Whitehead (expanded and tweaked notes) on 7 November 2012@06:05:17.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 28 November 2014@23:30:49.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note; another keyword) on 7 March 2016@03:54:31.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 8 October 2023@10:46:33.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.2) on 17 November 2023@11:48:55.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.2) on 20 November 2023@12:25:53.
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