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Headword:
Tomias
Adler number: tau,753
Translated headword: castrated
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] eunuch.[1]
"Narses, the general of the Romans, was castrated, and he was not particularly well-spoken or cultured, although he had been brought up very luxuriously in the imperial court. He was short in stature and unusually thin."[2] He was a contemporary of Justinian.
Greek Original:Tomias: eunouchos. ho de Narsês, ho stratêgos tôn Rhômaiôn, tomias ên, kai tês euglôttias autôi outi mala metên oude paideias, kai en tois basileiois trupherôtata anatethrammenos. ên de ara kai to sôma brachus kai en ischnotêti ekdediêitêmenos. ên d' epi Ioustinianou.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in other lexica
[2] Abridged and approximated from
Agathias,
Histories 1.16; see more fully under the Narses entry (
nu 42).
Translated by: John Mulhall on 9 November 2011@17:29:10.
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