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Headword: *)/ogkos
Adler number: omicron,22
Translated headword: body, bulk, mass, weight
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The Pisidian [writes]: "for having divided the army into three bodies he drew away your [men], by seeming to be surrounding [them]".[1]
"The emperor Maurice mingled in himself both opposites, a weight of intellect and a mildness."[2] And elsewhere: "Karteros [sic] the Macedonian [was] very large to look at and not far from royal bulk."[3]
Greek Original:
*)/ogkos: *pisi/dhs: ei)s trei=s ga\r o)/gkous to\n strato\n perisxi/sas u(fei=lke tou\s sou/s, tw=| dokei=n peritre/xwn. *mauri/kios de\ o( basileu\s suneke/rasen e)n e(autw=| a)/mfw ta\ e)nanti/ws e)/xonta a)llh/lois, o)/gkon fronh/matos kai\ prao/thta. kai\ au)=qis: *kartero\s o( *makedw\n me/gisto/s te o)fqh=nai kai\ ou) pro/sw o)/gkou basilikou=.
Notes:
cf. omicron 21.
[1] George of Pisidia, Heraclias 3 fr. 36 Tartaglia, on Heraclius's strategy in attacking the Persian forces under Rhazates at Nineveh (December 627); cf. epsilon 1141 note and Tartaglia (233, note 91). On Heraclius, see eta 465 generally.
[2] From mu 294 (q.v.).
[3] From kappa 2335 (q.v.); see also under sigma 562.
Reference:
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 November 2009@04:18:31.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 4 November 2009@10:02:40.
David Whitehead (tweak) on 5 November 2009@03:10:04.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 21 June 2013@04:29:45.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 5 February 2014@05:16:56.
Catharine Roth (tweaked reference) on 26 November 2014@23:52:50.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1; added bibliography, cross-references, and keyword) on 14 November 2025@10:40:55.
Ronald Allen (better wording n.1) on 15 November 2025@10:36:52.

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