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Headword:
Epiklêma
Adler number: epsilon,2382
Translated headword: accusation
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] complaint.[1]
Agathias [writes]: "judging it to be impossible, they thought it most seemly to shake off the accusation."[2]
And elsewhere: "Pakoros, the king of the Parthians, brought certain other accusations to the emperor Trajan, and [especially] made it an accusation against the Romans, that reportedly within 30 days neither [side] was accomplishing anything contrary to the agreements, but they were building fortifications according to the prophecy."[3]
Greek Original:Epiklêma: enklêma. Agathias: hêgoumenoi de adunaton einai, euprepestata ôionto aposeisasthai to epiklêma. kai authis: ho de Pakoros, ho Parthuaiôn basileus, kai alla tina epiklêmata epephere Traianôi basilei, kai to dokein epiklêma epoieito kata Rhômaiôn, hoti doxan entos l# hêmerôn mêdeterous para ta xunkeimena epitelein, hoi de ou kata to thespisthen epiteichizousin.
Notes:
See also the note (on
Josephus) at
epsilon 2380.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, beginning with
Hesychius epsilon4864, where Latte claims the neuter headword itself as quoted from
Euripides,
Orestes '569' [= 570] (
e)pi/klhm'); cf. the
scholia there, and those on
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 227 and 529).
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 1.12. In 553 CE, the Byzantine general Narses (cf.
nu 42) accuses citizens of
Luca (modern-day
Lucca, in Tuscany, central Italy) of breaking the truce they had reached, stages a mock execution of hostages from the city, and proposes to bring the dead back to life if the Lucchesi return to their original agreement; cf. Frendo (20-21). For further context to this episode from the Gothic War (535-554), see
alpha 457,
alpha 1709,
epsilon 917,
epsilon 1104, and
mu 707. For scholarly doubts about the veracity of
Agathias's account, see
alpha 457 note.
[3] Arrian,
Parthica fr.32 Roos. (Roos indicated corruption in the text.) For Pakoros cf.
alpha 2721,
pi 30,
omega 111.
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history; law; military affairs; religion; science and technology; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 November 2007@00:43:41.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (x-refs; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 5 November 2007@03:10:21.
David Whitehead (another note) on 17 March 2011@08:10:30.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 14 October 2012@05:05:22.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 14 October 2012@23:32:29.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 24 October 2023@21:48:07.
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