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Headword:
Konoskonkoloros
Adler number: kappa,2046
Translated headword: Konoskonkoloros
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He who in Greek is named Sardanapalos;[1] [the man] who behaving effeminately and occupying himself with luxury was destroyed by his own general Arbakes, having been forced to go to a voluntary death and to burn himself with the royal household. But this Arbakes also transferred the kingdom to the Medes.[2]
Greek Original:Konoskonkoloros: ho Hellênisti onomazomenos Sardanapalos: hos ta gunaikeia phronôn kai peri truphas ascholoumenos kateluthê hupo Arbakou tou idiou stratêgou, anankastheis elthein eis hekousion thanaton kai sun tois basileiois heauton katakausai. ho de Arbakês houtos kai tên basileian metethêken eis Mêdous.
Notes:
cf.
Eusebius,
Chronicon ed. Karst p. 32, 10-14; Georgius Syncellus 1 p. 312. But in this precise form the headword occurs only here.
[1] a.k.a. Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria:
sigma 121,
sigma 122.
[2] For Arbakes see
alpha 3753.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 March 2009@01:27:19.
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