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Headword: *pali/wcis
Adler number: pi,110
Translated headword: reverse pursuit
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] pursuit in return: when the retreaters turn around and pursue.[1]
Agathias [writes]: "the Romans wheeled themselves around and met their pursuers face to face and by assaulting them unstintingly pushed them back, and changed the business of the retreat into a reverse pursuit."[2]
Greek Original:
*pali/wcis: h( e)c e)pistrofh=s di/wcis: o(/tan oi( feu/gontes metaballo/menoi diw/kwsin. *)agaqi/as: oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi sfa=s au)tou\s e)celi/cantes u(phnti/azon toi=s diw/kousin a)ntime/twpoi kai\ pai/ontes a)feidw=s a)ntw/qoun, kai\ e)s pali/wcin ta\ th=s fugh=s metexw/rei.
Notes:
[1] = Photius pi97 Theodoridis; cf. Synagoge, where the only difference from these two is the use of the near synonymous u(postrofh=s instead of e)pistrofh=s ('return'). Probably originally from Homeric commentary: cf. the scholia to Iliad 12.71 and 15.69; Apollonius Sophistes, Lexicon Homericum s.v.
[2] A close paraphrase (and light abridgement) of Agathias, Histories p. 39 Keydell (= 1.22.5). The Byzantine general Narses (cf. nu 42) uses the ruse of a feigned retreat to disperse and defeat a large detachment of Franks at the Battle of Ariminum (553 CE, present-day Rimini, cf. alpha 3884); cf. Frendo (29-31), alpha 202, epsilon 3550, and pi 1234.
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 20 March 2011@09:11:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 20 March 2011@11:16:05.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 28 August 2011@07:07:09.
David Whitehead (updating and tweaking) on 13 August 2013@04:07:49.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 July 2015@16:32:14.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 14 November 2023@12:36:32.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.2) on 20 November 2023@21:06:45.

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