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Headword:
*au)toboei/
Adler number: alpha,4485
Translated headword: at the first battle-cry
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] in the battle itself.[1]
Agathias [writes]: "For how was it possible for them, who were few, to withstand the hordes of the enemy and not to be undone by fear at the first battle-cry?"[2]
"They held an assembly and decided to hand over the city at the first battle-cry."[3]
Meaning 'right away', that is, with [the battle cry] still reverberating. Or, while the oxen are still under the yoke.[4]
*au)toboei/: e)n au)th=| th=| ma/xh|. *)agaqi/as: pw=s ga\r e)nh=n au)tou\s o)li/gous o)/ntas e)negkei=n ta\ plh/qh tw=n polemi/wn kai\ mh\ ou)xi\ au)toboei\ diafqarh=nai u(po\ de/ous; e)kklhsiasqe/ntes e)dogma/tizon au)toboei\ paradw/sein th\n po/lin. a)nti\ tou= au)qhmero\n, oi(onei\ e)/naulon. h)\ e)/ti tw=n bow=n e)n zugw=| o)/ntwn.
Notes:
[1] cf.
alpha 4486.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 2.20 (p.108 Niebuhr).
[3] An approximation of Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 5.6.9; see Favuzzi [cited under
alpha 1990] 55.
[4] The first sentence of this explanatory addendum is broadly paralleled in
Hesychius s.v.; the second is etymological nonsense.
Translated by: William Hutton on 31 March 2002@23:25:09.
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