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Headword:
Agennôs
Adler number: alpha,198
Translated headword: ignobly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] in an unmanly way.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] "ignoble",[2] in reference to something weak and ill-born.
Also [sc. attested is the relative abstract noun] "ignobility", [meaning] unmanliness and cowardice.
"Thus [the] Romans made ignoble treaty-terms with the Huns out of fear."[3]
Greek Original:Agennôs: anandrôs. kai Agennes, epi tou asthenous kai epi dusgenous. kai Agennia, hê anandria kai hê deilia. ethento oun Rhômaioi spondas agenneis dia deos pros Ounnous.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha143 Theodoridis. The headword adverb is presumably quoted from somewhere.
[2] Here neuter singular; again, quoted from somewhere.
[3] Attributed to
Procopius, Adler notes, in the
Lexicon Vindobonense. For the Huns (and
Procopius), cf. under
alpha 3460.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: William Hutton on 17 October 2000@02:36:26.
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