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Headword:
*)/agein
kai\
fe/rein
Adler number: alpha,209
Translated headword: to plunder and to pillage
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Marauding and despoiling. But a)/gein [can mean], without distinction, both to carry away things, even from dead bodies, and to gather [them].[1]
"When [Baian] crossed to the land opposite the stream, immediately he set fire to the villages of the Slavs and laid waste to their fields. He plundered and pillaged everything, and at that point none of the barbarians there dared to come to blows with him; instead they took refuge in the most overgrown and sheltered parts of the woods".[2]
Greek Original:*)/agein kai\ fe/rein: to\ lh|steu/ein kai\ a(rpa/zein. a)/gein de\ kai\ a)pa/gein xrh/mata kai\ e)pi\ a)yu/xwn kai\ komi/zein a)diafo/rws. o( de\ e)pei\ e)peraiw/qh e)s to\ kat' a)ntikru\ tou= r(ei/qrou, paraxrh=ma ta/s te kw/mas e)nepi/mpra tw=n *sklabhnw=n kai\ e)si/neto tou\s a)grou\s, h)=ge/ te kai\ e)/feren a(/panta, ou)deno/s pw tw=n e)kei=se barba/rwn qarrh/santo/s oi( ei)s xei=ras e)lqei=n, ei)s ta\ la/sia kai\ kathrefh= th=s u(/lhs katapefeugo/twn.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar material in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha139 Theodoridis. For the idiom, see also
alpha 293 and
epsilon 427.
[2] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 21 Blockley (192-195). For the Slavs (Sklavenoi) see generally
sigma 634. In 578 the Avar khan Baian (Baianos, ruled ?561-582/585; cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Baianus) crossed the Danube and attacked Slav villages in Scythia (cf.
sigma 704 generally); cf. Blockley (280 notes 260-262). See the preceding line (in part) of this fragment at
alpha 1756.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
Keywords: agriculture; biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 October 2000@13:28:47.
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