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Headword: Anantagônistos
Adler number: alpha,1977
Translated headword: unrivalled
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] unconquerable.
"The attack of the Romans was unrivalled and forbidding to those who met it."[1]
Greek Original:
Anantagônistos: akatamachêtos. anantagônistos ên hê Rhômaiôn hormê kai dusantêtos tois entunchanousin.
Notes:
Similar entry in Hesychius. The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given (though does also occur in several earlier writers, including Lucian and Arrian).
[1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 2.6.13.
Keywords: definition; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 May 2001@10:01:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 29 July 2002@09:49:28.
David Whitehead (another note) on 26 February 2012@05:14:37.
David Whitehead on 30 June 2015@12:31:59.
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