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Headword:
*oi)dh/mata
Adler number: omicroniota,32
Translated headword: swellings, painless swellings, soft swellings
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] raised swellings [sc. of the vessels of the body]. Or distentions.
"With sensible words the general tried to calm the swellings of the soldiers’ insolence."[1]
Greek Original:*oi)dh/mata: e)pa/rmata. h)\ fush/mata. lo/gois e)xe/frosi kathu/nazen o( strathgo\s ta\ tou= stratiwtikou= qra/sous oi)dh/mata.
Notes:
See already
omicroniota 31, and cf.
omicroniota 30.
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.7.3; on the Roman general Romanus (cf.
epsilon 3145 and
lambda 734) tempering the zeal of his troops for pursuing the Persians into their territory (summer of 589); more fully at
tau 763; cf. de Boor (123) and Whitby (81). Another metaphor drawn from medicine.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 12 January 2003@06:43:28.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added x-ref and keyword; cosmetics) on 13 January 2003@03:19:12.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 28 November 2005@10:36:27.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 5 August 2013@05:14:57.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography and cross-references) on 20 May 2025@11:46:49.
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