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Headword: *paiti=ta
Adler number: pi,898
Translated headword: entreaties
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

The term [is] Latin.[1] It signifies a bill of demand amongst Romans.[2]
"Chrysaphius the praepositus ["prefect"] used to seek petita [from] Theodosius the emperor.[3]

Greek Original:

*paiti=ta: *(rwmai+sti\ h( le/cis. shmai/nei de\ gnw/risma ai)th/sews para\ *(rwmai/ois. *xrusa/fios de\ o( praipo/sitos paiti=ta e)pezh/tei *qeodo/sion to\n basile/a.

Notes:

[1] cf. pi 1396.
[2] Same entry, according to Adler, in the unpublished Lexicon Romanum codicis Barocciani 50.
[3] John Malalas Chronographia p.363 Dindorf, now XIV.19 Thurn (p.283) (cf. Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti de virtutibus et vitiis 1.162.25-163.1). See also Jeffreys et al. (p.198). On Theodosius II (emperor 402-450) and Chrysaphius see also theta 145 (with the note there) and pi 2441.

References:

L.A. Dindorf, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Bonn 1831)
J. Thurn, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Berlin 2000)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)

Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; law; politics
Translated by: David Porter on 21 November 2011@07:03:35.
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Catharine Roth (tweak, cross-reference) on 21 November 2011@13:04:41.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 22 November 2011@04:21:13.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 22 November 2011@07:46:39.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 22 November 2011@14:11:34.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; raised status) on 18 September 2013@09:54:42.
Catharine Roth (added a note and a keyword) on 13 June 2014@02:08:34.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 4 December 2014@10:49:00.
David Whitehead (coding) on 22 May 2016@08:16:10.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography, augmented n.3) on 5 August 2026@00:01:26.

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