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Headword: *fqo/ros
Adler number: phi,513
Translated headword: destruction
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In the masculine.[1]
"So much sought by him [Justinian] was always the destruction of men ..."[2]
And elsewhere: "a great destruction of bodies occurred."[3]
"For if it is necessary to understand the destruction at all, anyone who saw what happened then would know it with certainty."[4]
Greek Original:
*fqo/ros: a)rsenikw=s. ou(/tws h)=n au)tw=| katespoudasme/nos o( tw=n a)nqrw/pwn a)ei\ fqo/ros. kai\ au)=qis: polu\s de\ fqo/ros e)gi/neto tw=n swma/twn. ei) ga/r ti dei= noei=n to\n fqo/ron, to/t' a)\n i)dw/n tis to\ sumbai=non e)/gnw safw=s.
Notes:
[1] Sc. as contrasted with the feminine noun fqora/. Both are related to the verb fqei/rw (phi 484).
[2] Procopius, Secret History 13.8.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[4] As n. 3.
Reference:
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung II," Byzantinische Zeitung 23 (1914-1919) 53
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 January 2010@22:13:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 4 January 2010@03:56:23.
David Whitehead on 13 December 2013@03:38:58.
David Whitehead (coding) on 31 May 2016@05:33:39.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 3 March 2023@19:27:12.

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