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Headword:
*)epistolei=s
Adler number: epsilon,2631
Translated headword: couriers, secretaries
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] letter-carriers.[1] "Narses sent couriers to John and advised him that they should not join battle with the Persians until their forces were combined."[2]
Greek Original:*)epistolei=s: grammatofo/rous. o( de\ *narsh=s e)pistolei=s pro\s *)iwa/nnhn pe/mpei kai\ pareggua=| au)tw=|, w(s ou) dei= *pe/rsais sumple/kesqai, pri\n ai( duna/meis sunafqei=en.
Notes:
[1] The headword is accusative plural of the noun
e)pistoleu/s, presumably extracted from the quotation given (its only independent attestation).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 5.8.10; cf.
pi 519. On Narses see generally
nu 42.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 December 2007@18:42:53.
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