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Headword:
Anarropon
Adler number: alpha,2053
Translated headword: backwards
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] hastening-back.
"The Frankish force, having engaged with the Romans, pushed them out and turned the infantry backwards".[1]
And
Menander [writes]: "with the Avars coming down a few at a time, the generals immediately took a decision to attack them, and from this to turn the thrust of the Avars backwards".[2]
Anarropon: opisthormêton. hê de Phrangikê dunamis tois Rhômaiois xurrageisa exôthei te kai anarropon tithêsi tên pezikên stratian. kai Menandros: kationtôn tôn Abarôn kat' oligous, hoi stratêgoi gnômêi echrônto parachrêma epithesthai sphisi, kak toutou anarropon tithenai tên tôn Abarôn katarasin.
Notes:
The headword -- neuter singular of the adjective
a)na/rropos, used adverbially -- is illustrated by both of the quotations given.
[1] Quotation (again at
tau 807) unidentifiable.
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 15.2 Blockley (148-149). This fragment is difficult to place. Blockley tentatively locates it after fr. 15.1 (cf.
alpha 82) on the grounds that both fragments mention multiple generals, whereas fragments on earlier events, e.g. fr. 12.1 (cf. Blockley (128-129)), describe only one general, Bonus (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Bonus(4)), as being in charge of operations on the Danube frontier in 570-571; cf. Blockley (270, note 175). On the Avars see generally
alpha 18.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 22 October 2000@00:52:55.
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