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Headword:
Antirropon
Adler number: alpha,2721
Translated headword: equivalent to
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] counter-balancing.[1]
"For the destruction of Pacorus and of the force with him was equivalent to the ruin of Crassus and those about him".[1]
Greek Original:Antirropon: isorropon. têi te gar Krassou kai tôn amph' auton phthorai antirropon genesthai tên Pakorou kai tês xun autôi dunameôs apôleian.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha2130 Theodoridis. The headword -- masculine/feminine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective -- is perhaps extracted from the quotation given, though the other lexica do not have it (and there are numerous alternatives, in e.g.
Sophocles,
Xenophon and
Demosthenes).
[2] Arrian,
Parthica fr. 24 Roos-Wirth; cf.
pi 30.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 November 2000@22:45:17.
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