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Headword:
*)egguh/sasqai
Adler number: epsilon,165
Translated headword: to have [a woman] betrothed [to oneself]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] to court.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]
e)gguhth\ gunh/ ["fiancee"], a woman who is betrothed.
Procopius [writes]: "[Antonina] became Belisarius' fiancee after she had already become mother of many children. So at once she thought fit to be an adultress in succession [sc. to her other roles]."[2]
*)egguh/sasqai: ai)tiatikh=|. mnhsteu/sasqai. kai\ *)egguhth\ gunh/, h( memnhsteume/nh. *proko/pios: h( de\ e)gguhth\ u(/steron *belisari/w| gunh\ ge/gonen h)/dh pai/dwn mh/thr genome/nh pollw=n. eu)qu\s ou)=n h)ci/ou moixeu/tria to\ e(ch=s ei)=nai.
Notes:
[1] Aorist middle infinitive, with same glossing in other lexica. For the sense cf. generally
epsilon 169.
[2]
Procopius,
Secret History 1.12-13 (web address 1); the quotation at
mu 306 precedes this passage; cf. Kaldellis (5). Manuscripts of the
Secret History read
e)c a)rxh=s "from the beginning" instead of
e(ch=s. On Antonina, see
epsilon 671 note. On Belisarius, see
beta 233.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; children; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 June 2005@20:06:26.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 3 June 2005@02:58:09.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 24 September 2005@17:58:06.
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 24 September 2005@18:03:14.
Catharine Roth (added a name) on 25 September 2005@15:09:50.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 6 October 2005@09:07:48.
David Whitehead (expaned n.1; another keyword; tweaks) on 27 July 2012@05:24:28.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography, cross-references, and link n.2) on 21 May 2024@11:21:01.
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