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Headword:
*su/fac
Adler number: sigma,1693
Translated headword: Syphax, Sophax
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A name.[1] Appian [writes]: "Syphax, inquiring about the events, undertook to void the agreements."[2] And elsewhere: "love of the girl was pricking Syphax the ruler, but the Carthaginians gave her ..."[3]
Greek Original:*su/fac: o)/noma. *)appiano/s: *su/fac de\ tw=n ginome/nwn punqano/menos e)pexei/rei diaita=n dialu/seis. kai\ au)=qis: *su/faka d' a)/ra to\n duna/sthn e)/rws e)/knize th=s paido/s, oi( de\ *karxhdo/nioi e)/dwkan au)th/n.
Notes:
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF.
[1] King of the Masaeisylians in Numidia (last quarter of the third century BCE): see web address 1, and OCD4 s.v. Syphax The 'Sophax' version of his name occurs in
Polybius.
[2] From
epsilon 237.
[3] From
epsilon 515.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 February 2006@14:43:23.
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