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Headword: Gêraios
Adler number: gamma,247
Translated headword: aged, old
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning] ancient, advanced in years.
"But although he was already an old man and for the most part lame in both feet and unable to ride on a horse, nevertheless just like some able-bodied youth he was not remiss in labors, but proceeded into the battle lines carried in a litter."[1]

Greek Original:

Gêraios: palaios, probebêkôs. ho de gêraios te ôn êdê kai ek pleistou amphô tô pode pepêrômenos kai hoios mê eph' hippou ocheisthai, homôs hôsper tis neanias rhômaleôtatos ouk apêgoreue pros tous ponous, alla phoradên eis tas parataxeis ephoita.

Note:

[1] Agathias, Histories 2.22 (on Mermeroes: mu 637); cf. phi 581 and Frendo (56).

Reference:

J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)

Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; medicine; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 July 2002@23:09:25.
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Catharine Roth (added cross-reference and keyword) on 14 July 2002@01:14:57.
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