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Headword: *frenh/rhs
Adler number: phi,700
Translated headword: sound of mind
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] sensible, or in one's senses.[1]
Agathias [writes]: "there was a certain Armenian, sound of mind and, when required, fearless."[2]
And elsewhere: "Commodus was by nature not sound of mind and [...] not very good [or: brave] in military matters."[3]
Greek Original:
*frenh/rhs: fro/nimos, h)\ para/frwn. *)agaqi/as: h)=n de/ tis *)arme/nios frenh/rhs kai\ e)n de/onti filoki/ndunos. kai\ au)=qis: o( de\ *ko/modos h)=n fu/sin te ou) frenh/rhs kai\ ou) ma/la ti a)gaqo\s ta\ polemika/.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2] Agathias, Histories 2.6, on Chanaranges (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Chanaranges(3)), a cavalry commander under Byzantine general Narses (cf. nu 42) during the Gothic War (535-554); cf. Frendo (38). Chanaranges led Roman soldiers to seize a Frankish forage wagon, set it ablaze, and burn down a river bridge watchtower, setting off the Battle of the Volturnus (Battle of Capua, 554 CE); cf. delta 506 and sigma 257.
[3] Quotation (already, more fully, at kappa 1199) unidentifiable. For Commodus see generally kappa 2007.
References:
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 August 2012@10:08:31.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (coding, status) on 5 August 2012@18:22:28.
David Whitehead (typo) on 6 August 2012@03:15:15.
David Whitehead on 18 December 2013@04:56:57.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 9 December 2023@11:21:57.

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