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Headword:
Apomoira
Adler number: alpha,3445
Translated headword: portion, share
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] part.[1]
"A portion of the army brought out wineskins full of ash and soot, and with daggers they ripped these open and clouded the air."[2]
And
Agathias [writes]: "it was a detachment of the Franks, and they roamed up and down the plains there for forage."[3]
Apomoira: meros. apomoira de tês stratias askous epipheromenoi spodias kai tephras peplêrômenous, xiphidiois toutous dierrêxan kai ton aera etholôsan. kai Agathias: apomoira de ên tôn Phrankôn, kai ana ta têide pedia ephoita chilou heneka.
Notes:
[1] Similarly (glossed with
meri/s) in
Hesychius; Latte there regards the headword as extracted from the
Septuagint (
Ezechiel 45.20, accusative case there).
[2] Connected by Bernhardy with
alphaiota 106 and
kappa 2036.
[3]
Agathias,
Histories 1.17. In the autumn of 553 CE, Franks pillaging the countryside impede the advance of Roman cavalry toward
Faventia (present-day Faenza, northern Italy, Barrington Atlas map 40 grid B4); cf. Frendo (25) and
pi 770.
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 March 2002@22:40:50.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 15 March 2002@09:03:05.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 2 March 2011@10:07:35.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 4 April 2012@03:51:55.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@00:01:05.
David Whitehead on 28 August 2015@06:26:05.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation in consultation with Managing Editor Catharine Roth) on 27 September 2023@22:19:40.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography) on 28 September 2023@11:54:48.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.3) on 17 November 2023@11:37:26.
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