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Headword: *(ru/sia
Adler number: rho,308
Translated headword: sureties
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Pledges.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] r(usia/zw ["I treat as a pledge"].
"They say that [Polychares] killed the young man and seized the city."[2] Meaning took pledges [sc. in reprisal].
Josephus [writes]: "for taking a pledge from the enemy and assembling a large body of cavalry he sends it against them near Diospolis."[3]
"So that Odysseus might have the wooden statue as a surety in Ithaca."[4]
And the tragedy [says]: "I will pay [death as] a surety of death, alas."[5]
Greek Original:
*(ru/sia: e)ne/xura. kai\ *(rusia/zw. fasi\ de\ to\n neani/skon a)nelei=n kai\ th\n po/lin r(usia/zein. a)nti\ tou= e)ne/xura lamba/nein. *)iw/shpos: prw=ton me\n ga\r r(u/sion tw=n polemi/wn a)/gwn kai\ polu\ sugkroth/sas i(ppiko\n e)pafi/hsin au)tou\s peri\ *dio/spolin. o(/pws e)/xoi to\ co/anon r(u/sion e)n *)iqa/kh| o( *)odusseu/s. kai\ h( tragw|di/a: fo/nou de\ r(u/sion ti/sw ta/las.
Notes:
[1] Neuter plural(s). Same gloss in Photius, cf. Hesychius and scholia on Homer, Iliad 11.673, and Sophocles, Philoctetes 959. See also rho 309.
[2] Diodorus Siculus 8.7.6 (via Excerpta Constantiniana EV I 214.11-12), on an episode in early Peloponnesian history (for which see also Pausanias 4.4.4ff): Euaiphnos the Spartan has killed the son of Polychares the Messenian, and P. here retaliates.
[3] Josephus, Jewish War 1.366 (web address 1). This is the Diospolis (formerly Lydda) in Palestine, not the Egyptian one mentioned under delta 429 and mu 143.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
[5] Sophocles, Philoctetes 959 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; mythology; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 October 2010@01:33:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 24 October 2010@04:48:22.
David Whitehead on 25 August 2011@06:35:09.
Philip Rance on 25 January 2012@17:04:35.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 25 January 2012@18:27:41.

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