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Headword:
Korukos
Adler number: kappa,2123
Translated headword: sack
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a bag.[1]
"Attila found Mediolanum, a very populous city, and when he saw in a picture the Roman emperors seated on golden thrones, with the [dead] Skythians before their feet, he [sought out an artist and] ordered him to to depict [him, Attila] on a chair, with the Roman emperors carrying sacks on their shoulders and pouring out gold before his feet."[2]
Greek Original:Korukos: ho thulakos. hoti Attêlas Mediolanon poluanthrôpon heurôn polin, hôs eiden en graphêi tous Rhômaiôn basileis epi chrusôn thronôn kathêmenous, Skuthas de pro tôn autôn podôn, ekeleusen auton men zôgraphein epi thôkou, tous de Rhômaiôn basileis korukous pherein epi tôn ômôn kai chruson cheein pro tôn podôn autou.
Notes:
[1] cf.
kappa 2301.
[2] Quoted from
mu 405, q.v. Besides the abridgement indicated, "found" (
eu(rw/n) in the present entry is an error for "captured" (
katalabw/n in
mu 405; here a garbled
e(lw/n?), and in the headword itself the first vowel has shifted from omega to omicron.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 September 2001@02:11:32.
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