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Headword:
Epistoleis
Adler number: epsilon,2631
Translated headword: couriers, secretaries
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] letter-carriers.[1] "Narses sent couriers to John and advised him that they should not join battle with the Persians until their forces were combined."[2]
Greek Original:Epistoleis: grammatophorous. ho de Narsês epistoleis pros Iôannên pempei kai parenguai autôi, hôs ou dei Persais sumplekesthai, prin hai dunameis sunaphtheien.
Notes:
[1] The headword is accusative plural of the noun
e)pistoleu/s, presumably extracted from the quotation given (its only independent attestation).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 5.8.10; on Roman military strategy against Persian rebels in the summer of 591; cf. de Boor (203), Whitby (143),
epsilon 2328, and
pi 519. On Narses, Roman general in the East 591-603, see
epsilon 1313 note. On John see
epsilon 2328 note. On Narses, Roman general under Justinian (ruled 527-565, cf.
iota 446), see generally
nu 42.
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; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 December 2007@18:42:53.
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