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Headword:
Dunamis
Adler number: delta,1571
Translated headword: power
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the military force.[1]
"When a power of extraordinary magnitude had been brought together".[2]
And elsewhere, "the biggest possible", according to Attic phraseology, meaning large in number.[3]
Power is the name for both strength [sc. of a general kind] and military force.[4]
"[...] by the fact that the Romans' powers had been turned to the eastern wars."[5]
Greek Original:Dunamis: ho stratos. sunachtheisês dunameôs thaumastês hêlikês to megethos. kai authis, pleistês hosês, kata Attikên suntaxin, anti tou pollês to plêthos. Dunamis legetai kai hê ischus kai ho stratos. tôi ana tous heôious polemous tas Rhômaiôn tetraphthai dunameis.
Notes:
[1] For the multiple meanings of the headword noun
dynamis see LSJ s.v., and cf. here
delta 1572,
delta 1573
[2] Quotation (also in ps.-
Zonaras) unidentifiable.
[3] This element in the entry appears to stem, tangentially, from the phraseology used in the preceding quotation. Cf.
pi 1740.
[4] cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 290.17 and
Hesychius s.v. See also
delta 1572.
[5] A quotation of
Menander Protector,
De legationibus Romanorum ad Gentes 15.6 (through Constantine Porphyrogenitus).
Translated by: Stefano Sanfilippo on 14 March 2005@15:02:38.
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