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[Meaning] man in the diminutive.[1]
"[They professed] to marvel at the Goths, if they shudder at some manikin eunuch, reared indoors and living softly, and far from manly in his behavior".[2]

*)andra/rion: u(pokoristikw=s a)/ndra. qauma/zein de\ tou\s *go/tqous, ei) pefri/kasin a)ndra/rio/n ti qalamhpo/lon, skiatrafe/s te kai\ a(brodi/aiton, kai\ po/rrw tou= a)rrenwpou= tetagme/non.

[1] The (neuter) headword, as this glossing shows, is the accusative case; it is perhaps, though not demonstrably, extracted from the quotation given. For the plural see under pi 358.
[2] Agathias, Histories 1.7 (p.30 Niebuhr). During the Gothic War (535-554 CE), Leutharis and Butilinus, two brothers about to lead an army of Franks and Alamanni against the Romans in 553 CE, are unable to reconcile the reputation of the Byzantine general Narses (cf. nu 42) with the Goths' evident fear of his military capabilities; cf. Frendo (16). On Butilinus, see PLRE IIIa s.v. Butilinus(1). On Leutharis, see PLRE IIIb s.v. Leutharis(1).

J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)

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