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Headword:
*)/edesa
Adler number: epsilon,207
Translated headword: Edesa, Edessa
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city of
Syria.[1] When Trajan arrived at it, Abgar met him in front of the city bringing as gifts 250 horses and 250 armoured breastplates for the cavalrymen and their horses and sixty thousand missiles. But Trajan took three breastplates and told him to keep all the rest.[2]
Greek Original:*)/edesa: po/lis *suri/as: ei)s h(\n a)fikome/nw| *traianw=| u(pantia/zei pro\ th=s po/lews *au)/garos i(/ppous te dw=r' a)/gwn n# kai\ s1# kai\ tou\s katafra/ktous qw/rakas i(ppeu=si kai\ toi=s i(/ppois n# kai\ s1# kai\ be/lh e(cakismu/ria. o( de\ *traiano\s g# labw\n qw/rakas ta)/lla cu/mpanta au)to\n e)/xein e)ke/leusen.
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Keywords: biography; clothing; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 June 2005@07:27:26.
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