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Headword:
Onkos
Adler number: omicron,22
Translated headword: body, bulk, mass, weight
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The Pisidian [writes]: "for having divided the army into three bodies he drew away your [men], by seeming to be surrounding [them]".[1]
"The emperor Maurice mingled in himself both opposites, a weight of intellect and a mildness."[2] And elsewhere: "Karteros [sic] the Macedonian [was] very large to look at and not far from royal bulk."[3]
Greek Original:Onkos: Pisidês: eis treis gar onkous ton straton perischisas hupheilke tous sous, tôi dokein peritrechôn. Maurikios de ho basileus sunekerasen en heautôi amphô ta enantiôs echonta allêlois, onkon phronêmatos kai praotêta. kai authis: Karteros ho Makedôn megistos te ophthênai kai ou prosô onkou basilikou.
Notes:
cf.
omicron 21.
[1] George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias 3 fr. 36 Tartaglia, on Heraclius's strategy in attacking the Persian forces under Rhazates at Nineveh (December 627); cf.
epsilon 1141 note and Tartaglia (233, note 91). On Heraclius, see
eta 465 generally.
[2] From
mu 294 (q.v.).
[3] From
kappa 2335 (q.v.); see also under
sigma 562.
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 November 2009@04:18:31.
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