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Headword: *)acio/loga ba/rh
Adler number: alpha,2811
Translated headword: noteworthy weights
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"So that we might send from the towers well-aimed [and] noteworthy weights of stones."[1]
"And [he] having strewn the roads with noteworthy stones."[2]
"And [he] having bridged the marshes with noteworthy coverings."[3] That is, attractive, large [ones].
And elsewhere: "[...] Mermeroes to point out to us, since it is not a remarkable country, nor even worth fighting for, nor a task for a royal expedition; but one of its peoples are amongst those near the Caucasus."[4]
Greek Original:
*)acio/loga ba/rh: w(s a)\n a)po\ tw=n pu/rgwn pe/mpwmen e(khbolw/tata a)cio/loga li/qwn ba/rh. kai\ a)ciolo/gois katastrw/sas li/qois ta\s o(dou/s. kai\ ei)lh/masin a)ciolo/gois tou\s u(drostatoume/nous gefurw/sas. toute/stin eu)prepe/si, megi/stois. kai\ au)=qis: to\n *mermero/hn h(mi=n shma=nai, w(s ou)k e)/stin a)cio/logos h( xw/ra, ou)de\ mh\n perima/xhtos, ou)de\ basilikh=s e)/rgon e)kstratei/as: a)ll' e(\n u(pa/rxei tw=n e)qnw=n tw=n peri\ to\n *kau/kason.
Notes:
The headword phrase, in the neuter plural, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Synesius, Letters 133.16 (with optative pe/mpoimen). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.XCVI. The same passage is quoted at alpha 2621.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4] Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley (80-81), the Persian king Chosroes (cf. chi 418) explains his lack of designs on Suania to Justinian's envoy Petros. The time frame is 561-562; cf. Blockley (254 note 30). On Mermeroes cf. mu 637 (and pi 2201). On Justinian see iota 446. On Petros (Petrus) cf. pi 1406 and pi 1408. Suania (Svaneti, Svanetia, Souania) is a mountainous region of the Caucasus; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium s.v. Suania and Barrington Atlas map 87 grid H2.
References:
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
A.P. Kazhdan, ed. et al., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, (Oxford 1991)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 November 2000@08:53:25.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword, translation, keywords; added notes) on 12 March 2001@08:26:26.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 15 August 2002@09:48:43.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; added a keyword) on 10 August 2006@03:25:15.
David Whitehead (augmented notes, inc a source identification; tweaks) on 28 February 2011@06:06:23.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 12 October 2011@06:00:41.
David Whitehead (updated a reference) on 3 January 2012@04:48:21.
David Whitehead on 21 March 2012@07:07:04.
David Whitehead on 1 August 2015@06:59:17.
Catharine Roth (another cross-reference) on 23 October 2021@17:10:23.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 23 April 2023@18:33:27.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4; added bibliography and cross-references) on 16 August 2024@12:41:30.

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