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Headword:
*(rh=sos
Adler number: rho,146
Translated headword: Rhesos, Rhesus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.
[Rhesios(sic) was] a general of the Byzantines, who had his residence in front of the city in a spot known as the Rhesion, now celebrated for the house of the great martyr Theodore.[1]
[Rhesus] came as an ally of the Trojans, camped in the plain in front of the city, and met a sad death; for during the night Diomedes [
Author,
Myth] and Odysseus murdered him.[2]
*(rh=sos: o)/noma ku/rion. strathgo\s tw=n *buzanti/wn, ta\s oi)kh/seis e)/xwn pro\ th=s po/lews e)n to/pw| e)pilegome/nw| *(rhsi/w|, e)/nqa nu=n o( oi)=kos tou= mega/lou ma/rturos *qeodw/rou gnwri/zetai, h)=lqen ei)s summaxi/an tw=n *trw/wn kai\ katalu/sas e)n tw=| pedi/w| tw=| pro\ th=s po/lews keime/nw| a)tuxw=s a)ph/llace: dia\ nukto\s ga\r *diomh/dhs kai\ *)odusseu\s tou=ton katasfa/zousi.
Notes:
After the initial generic gloss, the body of the entry confusingly combines material on two different individuals, only the second of them called Rhesos.
[1] For this location see also
Procopius,
On (Justinian's) Buildings 4.28.
[2] See generally OCD(4) s.v. Rhesus, the Thracian ally of the Trojans whose story is told in
Homer,
Iliad 10.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 June 2004@07:02:18.
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