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Headword: Ouden aniei
Adler number: omicron,782
Translated headword: was not slackening at all
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"He himself was not slackening[1] at all, having shown himself an example of other training and especially of every kind of military deed."[2]
And elsewhere: "the young man [Germanus] was slackening no more, pushing back the attacks and considering every counsel of defense."[3]
Greek Original:
Ouden aniei: autos te ouden aniei, paradeigma heauton epideiknus tês te allês askêseôs kai pantos ergou stratiôtikou. kai authis: ouden ti pleon aniei ho neanias tas te prosbolas anakoptôn kai pasan boulên amuntêriôn dianooumenos.
Notes:
The headword phrase is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Imperfect active of a)ni/hmi, third person singular. For the idiom, see also omicron 781.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Both it and the one following were transmitted via the Excerpta made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus.)
[3] Agathias, Histories 5.21 (reading boulh\n a)munthri/an "defensive counsel"); quoted already at alpha 2461. In 559 CE the Byzantine general Germanus mounted a successful defense of the Thracian Chersonese (the present-day Gallipoli Peninsula, Barrington Atlas map 51 grid H3, cf. chi 215) against persistent attacks by Kotrigur Huns; cf. Frendo (157).
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 July 2010@01:12:21.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (removed a keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 5 July 2010@03:09:37.
David Whitehead on 31 July 2013@04:11:11.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 1 August 2013@12:44:16.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 20 February 2021@00:59:47.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keyword) on 24 September 2023@22:00:14.

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