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[Meaning a] union of two things. Also the [sc. process of] receiving and doing what is needed.[1]
"He was not ashamed to deprive those on active military service of all their pay."[2]
And Malchus [writes]: "often deprived of their pay and being cut off from their customary food, the soldiers fell into desperation."[3] And elsewhere Malchus [writes]: "he honored Pamprepius brilliantly and gave him a subsidy."[4]
Procopius [writes]: "but at the same time [they were] also finding fault, because the public treasury had owed them their pay for a long time."[5] That is, what was given [to them].

*su/ntacis: deute/rwn pragma/twn e(/nwsis. kai\ to\ lamba/nein kai\ poiei=n ta\ de/onta. tou\s strateuome/nous a)posterw=n ta\s sunta/ceis a(pa/sas ou)k h)|sxu/neto. kai\ *ma/lxos: tw=n sunta/cewn sterhqe/ntes polla/kis oi( stratiw=tai kai\ parakopto/menoi th=s trofh=s th=s sunh/qous e)s a)po/noian h)=lqon. kai\ au)=qis *ma/lxos: o( de\ to\n *pampre/pion lamprw=s te e)ti/mhse kai\ su/ntacin e)/dwke. *proko/pios: a(/ma de\ kai\ memfo/menoi, o(/ti dh\ sfi/si xro/nou ta\s sunta/ceis pollou= to\ dhmo/sion w)=fle. toute/sti ta\ dido/mena.

[1] Likewise in Photius and other lexica; and cf. Demosthenes 1.20 (for which see sigma 1625).
[2] Procopius, Secret History 22.7 (web address 1), on the financial malfeasance of Petros Barsymes (cf. beta 126, pi 1409, and delta 233), praetorian prefect in the Roman east (543-546 and 555-562); cf. theta 141 and Kaldellis (Secret History, 97).
[3] Malchus fr.24 FHG (and Cresci).
[4] Malchus fr.20 FHG (and Cresci); cf. pi 137.
[5] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.7.37 (web address 2); because the city has consistently failed to pay them, Roman soldiers at Beroia (cf. beta 245) desert to the Persians (540 CE); cf. Kaldellis (Wars of Justinian, 89). See related entries at delta 244, iota 726, and omicroniota 89. On the Persian army's 540 invasion of the Byzantine east, see alpha 465 note.

A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)

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