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Headword: *)apoporeute/a
Adler number: alpha,3484
Translated headword: necessary to go back
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Agathias [writes]: "accordingly it seemed to him necessary to go back to the river Phasis, and from the difficult terrains there."[1]
Meaning necessary to revisit, necessary to return.
Greek Original:
*)apoporeute/a: *)agaqi/as: toigarou=n a)poporeute/a au)tw=| e)do/kei e)pi\ *fa/sin potamo\n, kai\ tw=n e)kei/nh| dusxwriw=n. a)nti\ tou= e)panakte/on, u(postrepte/on.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] A loose and garbled version of Agathias, Histories 2.22 (p.112 Niebuhr): 'to the river Phasis' should be 'to Telephis' (a city of that name), the Suda's grammatically impossible tw=n e)kei/nh| dusxwriw=n should be th\n e)kei/nh| dusxwri/an, and a crucial 'not' is missing. During the Lazic War (541-562), in 555 CE the Sasanian general Mihr-Mihroe (Mermeroes in Greek; cf. mu 637), decides not to advance through rough terrain to Telephis (in Lazike/Kolchis, at the eastern end of the Black Sea, Barrington Atlas map 88 grid A2; cf. sigma 793 notes) and moves his army safely across the Phasis (phi 122 and phi 124) instead; cf. Frendo (55-56). On the dating of these events, see Cameron (143-144).
References:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
A. Cameron, Agathias, (Oxford 1970)
Keywords: biography; chronology; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 June 2001@12:31:08.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 3 June 2001@11:24:49.
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Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords) on 29 September 2023@11:30:48.

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