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Headword:
*su/naixmos
Adler number: sigma,1468
Translated headword: spear-companion
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] an ally.
Greek Original:*su/naixmos: o( su/mmaxos.
Note:
Likewise in
Photius sigma733 Theodoridis, and cf. already
Hesychius sigma2405 s.v.
su/naixma (neuter plural). Outside lexicography, this term is only otherwise attested in a
Novella of Constantine VII dated c.947 (ed. Svoronos/Gounaridis 123.101), apparently with the sense of a soldier's companion-in-arms.
N. Svoronos, Les Novelles des Empereurs Macédoniens concernant la terre et les stratiotes, ed. P. Gounaridis (Athens 1994)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 May 2014@22:55:17.
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