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Headword:
Lôphêsai
Adler number: lambda,745
Translated headword: to abate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Justinian was very ready for the destruction of humankind, but had no means to abate [it]."[1]
The [term] "to abate" applies strictly to oxen, [i.e.] removing the weight from the neck. For lophos [is] the [animal's] neck.[2]
Greek Original:Lôphêsai: ên de Ioustinianos es men anthrôpôn phthoran hetoi- motatos, es de to lôphêsai amêchanos. kuriôs de eirêtai lôphêsai epi boôn, to to baros apo tou trachêlou apothesthai. lophos gar ho trachêlos.
Notes:
For this verb see also
lambda 744,
lambda 747; and cf.
lambda 746.
[1]
Procopius,
Secret History 15.5 (actually about Theodora rather than Justinian: see web address 1). For Justinian see generally
iota 446.
[2] Same folk-etymological material in
Photius (lambda508 Theodoridis) and other lexica. For the equivalence invoked, see already
lambda 704.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 April 2009@04:50:36.
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