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Headword:
*)amei/besqai
Adler number: alpha,1563
Translated headword: to respond
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] to reply, to come back [sc. with words].[1]
"Leontios said so much; but Theudibaldos responded thus."[2]
Meaning answered.[3]
Greek Original:*)amei/besqai: ai)tiatikh=|. a)pokri/nesqai, kataba/llesqai. *leo/ntios me\n tosau=ta ei)=pe. *qeudi/baldos de\ a)mei/betai w(=de. a)nti\ tou= a)ntapokri/netai.
Notes:
cf.
alpha 1564,
alpha 1565.
[1] Same or similar glossing (minus the grammatical point) in
Photius and elsewhere.
[2]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.24.25 (web address 1); cf.
theta 298 and Kaldellis (519). In 551 CE, as ambassador from the emperor Justinian (cf.
iota 446), Leontios (cf. PLRE IIIb s.v.
Leontius(5)) negotiated unsuccessfully with Theudibaldos (cf. PLRE IIIb s.v. Theodebaldus(1)) for a Frankish withdrawal from parts of Italy and an alliance against the Goths. See also
pi 1303.
[3] cf.
eta 314.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 1 August 2000@13:01:50.
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