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Headword: *phmh/neian
Adler number: pi,1522
Translated headword: they would afflict
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] they would harm.[1]
"He did not cease before severely afflicting the opposition and slaying a great many."[2]
Greek Original:
*phmh/neian: bla/yeian. o( de\ ou) pro/teron a)nh=ke, pri\n sfo/dra phmh=nai to\ dusmene\s kai\ pollou\s o(/sous diaxeiri/sasqai.
Notes:
For this verb cf. pi 1519, pi 1520, epsilon 2181.
[1] From a scholion on Homer, Iliad 3.299 (web address 1); aorist optative. Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius pi861 Theodoridis.
[2] Agathias, Histories 5.23 (using the aorist infinitive), on the young Byzantine military commander Germanus (cf. alpha 4595 end), leading a sortie against the besieging Kotrigur Huns on the Thracian Chersonese (the present-day Gallipoli Peninsula, cf. chi 215); cf. Frendo (159). On Germanus and his exploits while defending the peninsula's long wall in 559 CE, also see alpha 3435, epsilon 2035, omicron 782, pi 2901, sigma 1653, and tau 881.
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 July 2004@01:32:37.
Vetted by:
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Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 21 November 2023@11:35:17.
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