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Headword:
Ônious
Adler number: omega,116
Translated headword: purchasable, at a price
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones] paid for; or valuable.[1]
Procopius [writes]: "[...] unless they obtain a purchasable safety by paying ransom [...]".[2]
Aelian [writes]: "and [the] jurors release him at a price."[3]
"[He] advises [them] to accept the Romans' [money] and to export the purchasable raw silk to them."[4]
Ônious: agorastous: ê timious. Prokopios: ei mê tên sôtêrian ônion ktêsontai lutra didontes. Ailianos: kai apoluousi dikastai ônioi auton. sumbouleuei aspasasthai ta Rhômaiôn kai par' autous ônion apokomizein tên metaxan.
Notes:
[1] cf.
omega 115 (and
Hesychius omega242, omega243) Here the headword is masculine accusative plural. It must be extracted from somewhere (but not any of the quotations given here); there are numerous possibilities.
[2]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 2.12.1 (web address 1), on the ransom demanded by Chosroes (cf.
chi 418) from the citizens of Chalkis [
Myth,
Place] [Myth, Place] (Chalcis ad Belum, in northern
Syria; cf.
alpha 3485 note); cf. Kaldellis (98). For additional background on the Persian army's invasion of the Roman east in 540 CE, see
alpha 465 note.
[3]
Aelian fr. 171b Domingo-Forasté (168 Hercher).
[4] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 10.1 Blockley. On raw silk, see
sigma 336 and
sigma 337.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 September 2005@12:44:19.
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