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Headword:
*fena/kh
Adler number: phi,194
Translated headword: cheating
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] deceit,[1] trickery.
"[Since] they made the search with a view to clarity, and there was no deception in the reconnaissance [...]."[2]
Greek Original:*fena/kh: a)pa/th, do/los. e)s to\ trane\s th\n e)/reunan e)poih/santo, kai\ fena/kh tis e)n th=| e)piskoph=| ou)k e)nh=n.
Notes:
LSJ s.v. recognises only the primary meaning of the headword
fena/kh ("wig, toupee", as
phi 195), but the applied sense is common enough in post-classical writers; cf. in any event the related verb
fenaki/zw (
phi 196).
[1] Same glossing in ps.-
Zonaras (and ps.-Herodian).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.5.11; on the search for rumored Persian reinforcements, led by Heraclius (cf.
phi 349), after the Battle of Solachon (in 586, cf.
alpha 141 note); already in part at
tau 905; cf. de Boor (79) and Whitby (50).
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 September 2011@14:48:12.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes; tweaks) on 20 September 2011@04:10:52.
David Whitehead on 5 December 2013@05:26:42.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 23 February 2014@06:41:12.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 7 May 2014@00:15:21.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 30 May 2025@12:50:23.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and keywords) on 2 June 2025@12:28:38.
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