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Headword:
Sunthêmatikôs
Adler number: sigma,1592
Translated headword: by signs, in code
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] in symbols.[1] "[He] wrote letters in code, as was their custom, so that he who got possession of the letter was not able to know anything of what had been written in it."[2]
And elsewhere: "[... he] often greeting Augustus with applause and giving this [as] a sign to the others."[3]
Greek Original:Sunthêmatikôs: sumbolikôs. epistolas egrapse sunthêmatikôs, kathaper ethos ên autois: hôste ton kurieusanta tês epistolês mê dunasthai gnônai mêden tôn en autêi gegrammenôn. kai authis: ton Augouston epeuphêmôn pollakis kai tois allois touto didous sunthêma.
Notes:
[1] The headword (presumably extracted from the first quotation given) and the gloss are in fact adverbs in the Greek
[2]
Polybius 8.17.4-5, on Bolis (
beta 480) et al.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable, but Bernhardy suggested that it refers to 'Messalla' (= M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus) greeting Octavian as Augustus. For
su/nqhma, see also
sigma 1590. It is unclear whether the present context is military, as there and also e.g.
xi 144.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 March 2014@23:20:31.
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