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Headword:
*polua/ndrion
Adler number: pi,1939
Translated headword: mass grave, common grave
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] memorial, tomb.[1]
What is by many colloquially called a strangers' burying-place.[2]
"Gainas withdrew from the city, having left it a common grave and a very expensive tomb, its occupants having not yet been buried."[3]
And
Aelian [writes]: "for burying the dead they prepared a common mass grave."[4]
*polua/ndrion: mnh=ma, ta/fon. to\ qrullou/menon para\ polloi=s cenota/fion. o( de\ *gaina=s e)cexw/rei th=s po/lews, katalipw\n au)th\n polua/ndrion kai\ polutelh= ta/fon, ou)/pw teqamme/nwn tw=n e)nw|khko/twn. kai\ *ai)liano/s: qa/yantes de\ tou\s nekrou\s ei)rga/santo koino\n polua/ndrion.
Notes:
The headword is a neuter noun in the nominative (and vocative and accusative) singular. There is also a two-ending adjective
polua/ndrios, -on (
associated with many men, populous) whose neuter nominative (and vocative and accusative) singular and masculine (and feminine) accusative singular forms coincide with the headword; cf. n.3 below, and see LSJ s.v.
[1] The headword is glossed similarly in
Synagoge pi530 (345.15 Bachmann) and
Photius,
Lexicon pi1032 Theodoridis, except that the Suda uses the accusative form of the second gloss (
ta/fon: tomb), whereas the others have the nominative
ta/fos. Compare also
Hesychius pi2819,
Pollux 9.15, and two
scholia on the
Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus. Theodoridis mentions (without positively endorsing) Naber's view that the headword is drawn from the
Septuagint:
2 Maccabees 9.4 or
Ezechiel 39.16.
[2] cf. E.A.
Sophocles (see Bibliography below), p. 790, s.v.
cenota/fion.
[3]
Eunapius fr. 79 FHG (4.49); Blockley, pp. 108-9, who interprets the headword as an adjective. Gainas (d. 400 CE), a northern Goth and Arian Christian, had been a loyal military commander 394-399 under the eastern Roman emperors
Theodosius I (The Great) (346-395; OCD(4) s.v.
Theodosius(2),
theta 144) and
Arcadius (succeeded
Theodosius and eastern ruler 383-408; OCD(4) s.v.
Arcadius(2)); Burns, pp. 151-72. But with his irregular Gothic army, Gainas occupied Constantinople for several months from 399-400 and even attempted to seize the imperial palace (PLRE, pp. 379-80). Facing an extremely hostile populace, he then withdrew part of his army, but left a residual force of some 7,000 troops, hoping that they might yet seize control of the city. The poorly organized troops were splintered, trapped, and massacred by the inhabitants (Williams, p. 12; PLRE, p. 380). This Eunapian fragment probably pertains to Gainas' disastrous partial evacuation of Constantinople in 400 (Blockley, p. 148). Other Suda passages concerning Gainas are
epsilon 740 and
eta 154.
[4] Part of
Aelian fr. 48 Hercher (51b Domingo-Forasté); cf.
pi 3122.
E.A. Sophocles, Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods, vol. II, New York: Ungar, 1957
R.C. Blockley, The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus, vol. II, Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983
T.S. Burns, Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome: A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 A.D., Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995
A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale, and J. Morris The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. I, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971
S. Williams and G. Friell, The Rome That Did Not Fall: The Survival of the East in the Fifth Century, London: Routledge, 1999
D. Domingo-Forasté, ed., Clavdii Aeliani: Epistvlae et Fragmenta, Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1994
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Translated by: Ronald Allen on 19 June 2009@02:07:36.
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