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Headword: *(/opoi
Adler number: omicron,490
Translated headword: whither
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] where.[1]
"[Chosroes] having commanded [Anastasios] to report [to the emperor Justinian] where on earth he had left Chosroes the son of Kabados [...]."[2]
Greek Original:
*(/opoi: o(/pou. a)pagge/llein keleu/sas, o(/poi pote\ gh=s *xosro/hn to\n *kaba/dou a)polipw\n ei)/h.
Notes:
[1] The headword is a relative and indirect interrogative adverb. In classical usage, it would mean "to what place, whither." Same glossing in other lexica; references at Photius omicron413 Theodoridis. See also omicron 492.
[2] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.5.27 (where the adverb is o(/ph|; cf. web address 1). On Chosroes see chi 418. On his father, Kabados (Kavad), see kappa 1 and PLRE II s.v. Cavades(1). In late 539 or early 540 CE, Anastasios of Daras (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Anastasius(6); on the northern Mesopotamian city of Daras, see delta 68) had been sent by Justinian (cf. iota 446) with a letter to Chosroes, asking that the Persian king continue to respect the Endless Peace (cf. alpha 3035); cf. Procopius 2.4.14 and Kaldellis (80). Chosroes did not answer, but--taking Anastasios hostage instead--he subsequently advanced upon and attacked (May 540) the Roman eastern frontier city of Soura (Sura, in southern Babylonia; cf. Barrington Atlas map 91 grid F5); cf. Procopius 2.5.8-10 and Kaldellis (82). By way of a ruse his soldiers breached the Soura circuit-wall gate, sacked the city, and Chosroes dispatched Anastasios back to Justinian with the cryptic message of the quotation; cf. Kaldellis (83).
References:
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. II, (Cambridge 1980)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 February 2010@01:45:05.
Vetted by:
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