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Headword: *bro/xois
Adler number: beta,559
Translated headword: with nooses, with slip-knots
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] with ropes.[1]
"They, then, having attached some slip-knots let [him] down by night from the precinct."[2]
And elsewhere: "by using the ropes they were scaling the defenses."[3]
And [the phrase] "he attaching a noose" [employs] an accusative, even though the [verb] a(/ptomai ['attach one's self'] governs a genitive.[4]
Greek Original:
*bro/xois: sxoini/ois. oi( me\n ou)=n bro/xois tisi\n e)na/yantes nu/ktwr a)po\ tou= peribo/lou kaqh=kan. kai\ au)=qis: dia\ tw=n bro/xwn e)s ta\s e)pa/lceis a)ne/bainon. kai\ *bro/xon a(ya/menos ai)tiatikh=|, ei) kai\ to\ a(/ptomai genikh=| sunta/ssetai.
Notes:
See also beta 558.
[1] For this glossing Adler adduces a scholion on Thucydides 2.76.4, but the headword is accusative plural there. The Suda's dative plural must be quoted from somewhere else; there are numerous possibilities.
[2] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 4.23.19 (web address 1); cf. Kaldellis (240). After Moorish soldiers led by the Roman rebel Stotzas (cf. PLRE IIIb s.v. Stotzas) captured the city of Hadrumentum (present-day Sousse, Tunisia; cf. Barrington Atlas map 33 grid G1) through a ruse in 544 CE, a local priest is lowered from the city walls so that he might escape to Carthage and appeal for help.
[3] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as, again, from Procopius' History of the Wars of Justinian: this time 7.20.14 (web address 2, here abridged and modified). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.XCII, following Haury. In December 546 CE, guards from the night watch at the Asinaria Gate of Rome suspend ropes from the battlements and allow soldiers from the Gothic army of Totila (cf. tau 879) to enter the city and breach the gate; cf. Kaldellis (421). See further context at epsilon 1256 and pi 1330.
[4] cf. Syntacticon Laurentianum, Anecdota Oxoniensia 4.281.26.
References:
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 addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: architecture; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 October 2002@14:05:42.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added notes) on 9 October 2002@00:46:07.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 9 October 2002@03:00:17.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 March 2011@08:48:00.
David Whitehead (modified and expanded n.3) on 11 October 2011@09:41:38.
David Whitehead on 4 June 2012@04:18:00.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 18 August 2012@21:16:59.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; coding) on 24 September 2015@03:16:34.
Ronald Allen (augmented translated headword, tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 8 January 2024@11:50:23.
Ronald Allen (added links) on 9 January 2024@11:16:27.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography) on 10 January 2024@11:08:26.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added cross-reference) on 10 January 2024@14:06:35.
Ronald Allen (fix cross-reference n.3.) on 10 January 2024@19:41:20.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.3) on 28 January 2024@16:58:44.

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