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Headword:
*palimboli/a
Adler number: pi,87
Translated headword: fickleness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Describing] an opinion which is easily changed.[1]
Agathias [writes]: "on the generals' part there was much marshalling, many watch-periods and sleepless times and goings-about among the multitude, hope and fear and fickleness."[2]
*palimboli/a: h( eu)meta/blhtos gnw/mh. *)agaqi/as: tw=n de\ strathgw=n pollh\ me\n u(ph=rxe para/tacis, pollai\ de\ frourai\ kai\ a)grupni/ai kai\ a)na\ ta\ plh/qh perinosth/seis, e)lpi\s kai\ de/os kai\ palimboli/a.
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1; cf.
pali/mbolos at
pi 88 &
pi 89.
[1] Same glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius pi71 Theodoridis.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 2.6. (This noun also occurs in
Greek Anthology 5.302.12, attributed to the same
Agathias.) The abridged passage describes the meticulous preparations of the closely encamped Frankish and Roman armies before the Battle of the Volturnus (Battle of
Capua, 554 CE, cf.
delta 506); cf. Frendo (37). For additional background, see
epsilon 953,
lambda 387, and
mu 764.
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 July 2001@22:19:12.
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