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Headword:
*)/ayurtos
Adler number: alpha,4739
Translated headword: Apsyrtos, Apsyrtus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Prusa, [or][1] of Nicomedia, a soldier, who had campaigned under the Emperor Constantine[2] in Scythia by the Istros.[3] This man wrote a book on farriery[4] and a physical [treatise] about the same animals;[5] and other things. Cimon the Athenian also wrote a marvellous book on the inspection of horses.[6]
Greek Original:*)/ayurtos, *prousaeu\s, *nikomhdeu\s, stratiw/ths, strateusa/menos e)pi\ *kwnstanti/nou tou= basile/ws e)n *skuqi/a| para\ to\n *)/istron. i(ppiatriko\n bibli/on ou(=tos e)/grayen kai\ fusiko\n peri\ tw=n au)tw=n a)lo/gwn: kai\ e(/tera. e)/graye kai\ *ki/mwn *)aqhnai=os i(pposkopiko\n bibli/on qauma/sion.
Notes:
C4 AD.
[1] 'Or' is explicit, Adler reports (addenda), in ms E.
[2] Some manuscripts have "Constantius".
[3] The lower Danube.
[4] Or "horse-medicine": cf.
chi 267.
[5] For
aloga as animals, especially horses, in late Greek see LSJ s.v.
[6] cf.
kappa 1621 (end) -- where however the name of this author should almost certainly be
Simon (making the authorship misattributed); cf.
sigma 871.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 June 2001@22:23:16.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 8 June 2001@04:45:07.
David Whitehead (modified translation at one point; corrected x-ref; augmented notes and keywords) on 31 August 2004@07:56:55.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 10 May 2012@04:47:31.
David Whitehead (another note) on 26 January 2014@05:47:05.
Catharine Roth (added a note) on 11 January 2016@00:23:30.
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