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Headword: Apêlgêsan
Adler number: alpha,3151
Translated headword: they grieved at
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"The whole populace [...] immediately grieved at the calamity and in lamentation raised their cries to heaven."[1] Meaning they mourned.
Greek Original:
Apêlgêsan: ho de dêmos hapas apêlgêsan to pathos euthus kai xun oimôgêi anekragon ouranion hoson. anti tou ôiktisanto.
Notes:
The headword is evidently extracted from the quotation given. The verb can also mean "put away sorrow:" see LSJ s.v. (web address 1).
[1] Procopius, Secret History 16.20; again, more briefly, at omicron 935.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 July 2000@15:06:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified and completed translation; added keyword; cosmetics) on 16 March 2001@06:00:20.
Catharine Roth on 16 March 2001@11:08:00.
David Whitehead (expanded notes) on 4 August 2010@06:13:31.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 29 March 2012@05:49:49.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 12 September 2015@12:23:20.
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