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Headword:
Enguêsasthai
Adler number: epsilon,165
Translated headword: to have [a woman] betrothed [to oneself]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] to court.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]
e)gguhth\ gunh/ ["fiancee"], a woman who is betrothed.
Procopius [writes]: "[Antonina] became Belisarius' fiancee after she had already become mother of many children. So at once she thought fit to be an adultress in succession [sc. to her other roles]."[2]
Enguêsasthai: aitiatikêi. mnêsteusasthai. kai Enguêtê gunê, hê memnêsteumenê. Prokopios: hê de enguêtê husteron Belisariôi gunê gegonen êdê paidôn mêtêr genomenê pollôn. euthus oun êxiou moicheutria to hexês einai.
Notes:
[1] Aorist middle infinitive, with same glossing in other lexica. For the sense cf. generally
epsilon 169.
[2]
Procopius,
Secret History 1.12-13; the quotation at
mu 306 precedes this passage. Manuscripts of the
Secret History read
e)c a)rxh=s "from the beginning" instead of
e(ch=s.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 June 2005@20:06:26.
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