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Headword:
*)ape/raton
Adler number: alpha,3035
Translated headword: endless
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] infinite, great, of which there is no end [
pe/ras]. Those who write it with the nu are in error.[1]
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "the business of the nights [is] almost endless."[2]
And elsewhere: "Chosroes manifestly broke the so-called Endless Peace."[3]
*)ape/raton: a)/peiron, me/ga, ou(= pe/ras ou)k e)/stin. oi( de\ meta\ tou= n gra/fontes a(marta/nousin. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: to\ xrh=ma tw=n nuktw=n o(/son a)pe/raton. kai\ au)=qis: o( de\ *xosro/hs th\n a)pe/ranton kaloume/nhn ei)rh/nhn lamprw=s pare/lusen.
Notes:
The headword, neuter singular of this adjective, is extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] A robust position, but LSJ s.v.
a)pe/rantos shows that many did not share it.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 2-3 (web address 1 below; modern editors punctuate after
o(/son; for this see again at
chi 474), with scholion.
[3]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 2.5.1 (web address 2); again at
lambda 100; cf. Kaldellis (81). In May 540 CE, the Persian king Chosroes (cf.
chi 418) invades Roman territory; cf.
alpha 2699. Concluding the Iberian War (526-532), the treaty of Endless (Perpetual, Eternal) Peace was signed by the Byzantine and Persian Empires in September 532; cf. Bury (88-89) and Greatrex and Lieu (96-97).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
J.B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire, (London 1923)
G. Greatrex and S.N.C. Lieu, eds., The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars. Part II: AD 363-630, (London 2002)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 January 2001@10:32:45.
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