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Headword: *proskrou/ein
Adler number: pi,2746
Translated headword: to clash
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Used] with a dative. [Meaning] to confront, to devise. "The Sicilians when they saw the fleet [...] did not confine themselves in their strongholds, they decided to clash with the enemy no further.[1]
Greek Original:
*proskrou/ein: dotikh=|. e)nantiou=sqai, e)kmhxana=sqai. oi( *sikeliw=tai to\n sto/lon i)do/ntes ou)k e)n toi=s o)xurw/masi kaqei=rcan au(tou/s, ou)k a)/llo proskrou/ein toi=s e)nanti/ois ou)de\n e)/gnwsan.
Notes:
The headword -- presumably (though not demonstrably) extracted from the quotation given -- is present active infinitive of proskrou/w (literally, 'bash against'). For another form of the same verb see already pi 2723; and cf. the glossing noun at pi 2739.
[1] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 7.16.19 (web address 1), here abridged (and transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti). The quotation is taken from Totila's (cf. tau 879) address to Pelagius (cf. alpha 1585), upon the latter's appearance before the Gothic king to plead for relief from the siege of Rome (probably late 546 CE); cf. Kaldellis (412). Totila sharply reminds Pelagius that Theoderic (cf. theta 296)--complying with a Roman request to not burden the Sicilians--had left the island lightly garrisoned, only to have the local population welcome the invasion of Sicily by an overwhelming Byzantine force (in 535; cf. Bury (170-171)).
References:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
J.B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire, (London 1923)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
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Translated by: William Hutton on 29 August 2013@23:55:09.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented and modified notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 August 2013@03:40:23.
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