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Headword: Auxê
Adler number: alpha,4451
Translated headword: increase
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] incrementation.[1]
"[...] not to attack them, since they had attained the heights of power, but to prevent with all his strength their increase."[2]
Greek Original:
Auxê: auxêsis. mê ephienai autois epi megala dunameôs airomenois, alla panti sthenei tên auxên autôn kolouein.
Notes:
cf. alpha 4452.
[1] Same or similar glossing elsewhere.
[2] Agathias, Histories 1.5 (p.24 Niebuhr), which has not 'them' but is specific: 'Romans'. On their embassy in 552 CE to the young Theudobald, king of the Franks at Metz, Goth ambassadors urge him to defend them against further subjugation by the Romans; cf. Frendo (13-14).
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: William Hutton on 25 March 2002@03:20:24.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, note) on 25 March 2002@14:17:40.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 27 March 2002@00:45:10.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 10 April 2002@05:43:07.
David Whitehead (added keywords) on 28 August 2002@03:19:06.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; tweaking) on 1 May 2012@03:30:47.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@00:21:01.
David Whitehead on 10 September 2015@11:01:28.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added keyword) on 3 October 2023@11:12:03.
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