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Headword:
*(upaspistai/
Adler number: upsilon,162
Translated headword: hypaspists
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] spear-carriers.[1]
"Chosroes had 30 hypaspists and spear-carriers".[2]
Greek Original:*(upaspistai/: dorufo/roi. tw=| de\ *xosro/h| u(paspistai\ kai\ dorufo/roi l# u(ph=rxon.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. 'Spear-carriers' often has the more specific sense of bodyguards, as, seemingly, in the quotation which follows (and cf. generally
delta 1403).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 4.10.7, on Chosroes II's entry into the eastern Roman frontier garrison at Circesium (early March 590); cf. de Boor (168) and Whitby (117). Circesium (present-day al-Busayrah, in eastern
Syria) was located at the junction of the Euphrates and Khabur Rivers (Barrington Atlas map 91 grid B2). On Chosroes see
chi 418 note.
References:
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 March 2006@05:19:45.
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