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Headword: *zw/gria
Adler number: zeta,120
Translated headword: life-fees, rewards for life saved
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] ransoms by which life is preserved.[1]
Procopius [writes]: "by giving ransoms to Chosroes they saved the city and themselves."[2]
Greek Original:
*zw/gria: di' w(=n lu/trwn to\ zh=n perigi/netai. *proko/pios: tw=| *xosro/h| zw/gria do/ntes th\n po/lin kai\ sfa=s au)tou\s diesw/santo.
Notes:
[1] Already at zeta 112; and cf. also zeta 121, zeta 122.
[2] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.12.2 (web address 1), on the ransom paid to Chosroes by the citizens of Chalkis [Myth, Place] (Chalcis ad Belum, in northern Syria; cf. alpha 3485 note); cf. Kaldellis (98). On Chosroes see generally chi 418. For further background on the Persian army's invasion of the Roman east in 540 CE, see alpha 465 note.
Reference:
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; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 May 2005@23:02:37.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more x-refs; another keyword; cosmetics) on 26 May 2005@03:24:30.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 30 November 2012@05:58:05.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 26 March 2016@09:20:03.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and link) on 23 February 2024@10:49:46.

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