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Headword:
Rhusia
Adler number: rho,308
Translated headword: sureties
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Pledges.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb]
r(usia/zw ["I treat as a pledge"].
"They say that [Polychares] killed the young man and seized the city."[2] Meaning took pledges [sc. in reprisal].
Josephus [writes]: "for taking a pledge from the enemy and assembling a large body of cavalry he sends it against them near Diospolis."[3]
"So that Odysseus might have the wooden statue as a surety in Ithaca."[4]
And the tragedy [says]: "I will pay [death as] a surety of death, alas."[5]
Rhusia: enechura. kai Rhusiazô. phasi de ton neaniskon anelein kai tên polin rhusiazein. anti tou enechura lambanein. Iôsêpos: prôton men gar rhusion tôn polemiôn agôn kai polu sunkrotêsas hippikon epaphiêsin autous peri Diospolin. hopôs echoi to xoanon rhusion en Ithakêi ho Odusseus. kai hê tragôidia: phonou de rhusion tisô talas.
Notes:
[1] Neuter plural(s). Same gloss in
Photius, cf.
Hesychius and
scholia on
Homer,
Iliad 11.673, and
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 959. See also
rho 309.
[2]
Diodorus Siculus 8.7.6 (via
Excerpta Constantiniana EV I 214.11-12), on an episode in early Peloponnesian history (for which see also
Pausanias 4.4.4ff): Euaiphnos the Spartan has killed the son of Polychares the Messenian, and P. here retaliates.
[3]
Josephus,
Jewish War 1.366 (web address 1). This is the Diospolis (formerly Lydda) in Palestine, not the Egyptian one mentioned under
delta 429 and
mu 143.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
[5]
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 959 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 October 2010@01:33:36.
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