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Headword: *pro/sforon
Adler number: pi,2846
Translated headword: serviceable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] proper, fitting, useful.[1]
"For not because of the fortune of what has happened will you reject the serviceability of [his] dignity or of [his] familiarity." Chosroes says this to Mauricius.[2]
Greek Original:
*pro/sforon: oi)kei=on, a(rmo/dion, e)pith/deion. ou) ga\r dia\ th\n tu/xhn tw=n sumbebhko/twn a)qeth/seis th=s a)ci/as h)\ th=s proshgori/as to\ pro/sforon. *xosro/hs fhsi\ pro\s *mauri/kion.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in the Synagoge, Lexica Segueriana 352.3, and Photius pi1378 Theodoridis; similarly in Hesychius pi3928; and cf. pi 2845. The headword, masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, must be quoted from somewhere (possibly the quotation given here, which has the neuter, though the other lexica do not give it).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 4.11.11 = Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti de legationibus 483.14-16 de Boor. On the emperor Mauricius (Maurice), see mu 294; on Chosroes, king of Persia, see chi 418. The historian is quoting a letter from Chosroes to Mauricius.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 September 2013@01:18:50.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (expanded note with cross-references) on 16 September 2013@01:26:50.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; another keyword; raised status) on 16 September 2013@03:37:31.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 16 September 2013@08:12:23.
David Whitehead on 20 October 2013@05:55:32.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 20 June 2014@01:50:19.

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