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Headword:
Anarropon
Adler number: alpha,2053
Translated headword: backwards
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] hastening-back.
"The Frankish force, having engaged with the Romans, pushed them out and turned the infantry backwards".[1]
And
Menander [writes]: "with the Avars coming down a few at a time, the generals immediately took a decision to attack them, and from this to turn the thrust of the Avars backwards".[2]
Greek Original:Anarropon: opisthormêton. hê de Phrangikê dunamis tois Rhômaiois xurrageisa exôthei te kai anarropon tithêsi tên pezikên stratian. kai Menandros: kationtôn tôn Abarôn kat' oligous, hoi stratêgoi gnômêi echrônto parachrêma epithesthai sphisi, kak toutou anarropon tithenai tên tôn Abarôn katarasin.
Notes:
The headword -- neuter singular of the adjective
a)na/rropos, used adverbially -- is illustrated by both of the quotations given.
[1] Quotation (again at
tau 807) unidentifiable.
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 15.2 Blockley.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 22 October 2000@00:52:55.
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