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Headword: *oi)ktro/s
Adler number: omicroniota,89
Translated headword: pitiable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] wretched, deserving of mercy.[1]
"If, because a king reproaches pitiable and most dishonoured men with these things, someone might consider that not even [someone] speaking in response is bound to agree with what has been said."[2]
Greek Original:
*oi)ktro/s: tapeino/s, e)le/ous a)/cios. ei) me\n o(/ti basileu\s a)nqrw/pois oi)ktroi=s kai\ a)timota/tois tau=ta e)pikalei=, skoph/seien a)/n tis, a)na/gkh mhd' a)ntile/gonta toi=s ei)rhme/nois o(mologei=n.
Notes:
cf. generally omicroniota 86, omicroniota 87, omicroniota 88, omicroniota 90.
[1] For the second of these glosses cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 11.242, where the headword occurs.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Procopius, On the Wars of Justinian 2.7.23 (Megas). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.XCV. In early 540 CE, Megas, the bishop of Beroia (cf. beta 245), pleads with Chosroes (cf. chi 418) to discontinue the Persian attack and spare the lives of Beroeans who had taken refuge in the city's acropolis; cf. Kaldellis (88), alpha 2461, delta 255, iota 726, and sigma 1623. Find the Greek text at web address 1. For further entries pertaining to the Persian army's 540 sweep through the Byzantine east, see alpha 465 note.
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; epic; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 May 2004@05:21:15.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented and modified notes; augmented keywords) on 21 May 2004@07:10:11.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; more keywords) on 12 October 2011@03:46:32.
David Whitehead on 7 August 2013@04:46:46.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, keyword, and link) on 17 March 2024@11:09:15.
Ronald Allen (my typo n.2, added cross-references) on 7 April 2024@10:47:45.

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