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Headword: Gauron
Adler number: gamma,77
Translated headword: disdainful, haughty, undaunted
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] stubborn, great, unswerving, unswayed.
Aristophanes [in] Frogs [writes]: "for there is nothing so haughty as Herakles."[1]
Agathias [writes]: "Belisarius produced a greater and more undaunted undertaking, and was glad of the victory."[2]
And elsewhere: "he [was] undaunted, as if [un?]affected."[3]
Greek Original:
Gauron: sterron, mega, aklines, akataplêkton. Aristophanês Batrachois: ouden gar houtô gauron esth' hôs Hêraklês. Agathias: ho de Belisarios tên encheirêsin meizona edeixe kai gauroteran, kai pericharês ge tên nikên. kai authis: ho de gauros hôsperei kinoumenos.
Notes:
The headword, identically or similarly glossed in other lexica, is the neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective (gamma 78), presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
cf. generally gamma 76.
[1] Aristophanes, Frogs 282 (web address 1).
[2] An approximation of Agathias, Histories 5.15, on the Byzantine general Belisarius (cf. beta 233) prior to his engagement with invading Huns outside Constantinople in 559 CE; cf. Frendo (151), beta 532, sigma 1513, and upsilon 317.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 June 2002@18:58:22.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords) on 19 June 2002@05:02:13.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 6 March 2011@09:39:04.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 June 2011@06:17:57.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 17 June 2011@14:10:58.
David Whitehead on 27 September 2015@06:58:19.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 11 March 2016@01:09:39.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference) on 9 October 2023@23:39:27.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.2) on 1 December 2023@10:21:55.
Ronald Allen (added another cross-reference n.2) on 8 December 2023@10:15:43.

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