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Headword:
*)anantagw/nistos
Adler number: alpha,1977
Translated headword: unrivalled
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] unconquerable.
"The attack of the Romans was unrivalled and forbidding to those who met it."[1]
Greek Original:*)anantagw/nistos: a)katama/xhtos. a)nantagw/nistos h)=n h( *(rwmai/wn o(rmh\ kai\ dusa/nthtos toi=s e)ntugxa/nousin.
Notes:
Similar entry in
Hesychius. The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given (though does also occur in several earlier writers, including Lucian and Arrian).
[1] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.6.13.
Keywords: definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 May 2001@10:01:50.
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