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Headword: *du/namis
Adler number: delta,1571
Translated headword: power
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the military force.[1]
"When a power of extraordinary magnitude had been brought together".[2]
And elsewhere, "the biggest possible", according to Attic phraseology, meaning large in number.[3]
Power is the name for both strength [sc. of a general kind] and military force.[4]
"[...] by the fact that the Romans' powers had been turned to the eastern wars."[5]
Greek Original:
*du/namis: o( strato/s. sunaxqei/shs duna/mews qaumasth=s h(li/khs to\ me/geqos. kai\ au)=qis, plei/sths o(/shs, kata\ *)attikh\n su/ntacin, a)nti\ tou= pollh=s to\ plh=qos. *du/namis le/getai kai\ h( i)sxu\s kai\ o( strato/s. tw=| a)na\ tou\s e(w/|ous pole/mous ta\s *(rwmai/wn tetra/fqai duna/meis.
Notes:
[1] For the multiple meanings of the headword noun dynamis see LSJ s.v., and cf. here delta 1572, delta 1573
[2] Quotation (also in ps.-Zonaras) unidentifiable.
[3] This element in the entry appears to stem, tangentially, from the phraseology used in the preceding quotation. Cf. pi 1740.
[4] cf. Etymologicum Magnum 290.17 and Hesychius s.v. See also delta 1572.
[5] A quotation of Menander Protector, De legationibus Romanorum ad Gentes 15.6 (through Constantine Porphyrogenitus).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: Stefano Sanfilippo on 14 March 2005@15:02:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked translation; augmented notes; cosmetics) on 15 March 2005@02:58:42.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 July 2012@09:38:00.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 23 September 2012@11:26:01.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 5 December 2014@23:31:32.
David Whitehead on 6 December 2014@03:11:07.

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