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Headword:
*sw=stris
Adler number: sigma,867
Translated headword: Sostris, Sesostris
Vetting Status: high
Translation: King of the Egyptians, from the tribe of Cham, the man who subjected the Assyrians, all Asia, and Europe. In the land of the Assyrians, he settled 50,000 Scythian men,[1] who were called "Parthians," which is "Scythians" in the Persian language. Up to today they have the clothing and the speech and the customs of the Scythians.
Greek Original:*sw=stris, basileu\s tw=n *ai)gupti/wn, e)k th=s fulh=s tou= *xa/m: o(/stis u(pe/tace tou\s *)assuri/ous kai\ pa=san th\n *)asi/an kai\ th\n *eu)rw/phn: kai\ katw/|kisen e)n th=| *)assuri/wn xw/ra| *skuqw=n a)/ndras muria/das #22e#, oi(/tines e)klh/qhsan *pa/rqoi, o(/ e)sti *persikh=| glw/ssh| *sku/qai. kai\ me/xri sh/meron e)/xousi kai\ th\n stolh\n kai\ th\n lalia\n kai\ tou\s no/mous tw=n *skuqw=n.
Notes:
From John Malalas
Chronographia p.25ff Dindorf, now II.3 Thurn (16); cf. Jeffreys et al. (12) and Roos,
Arrianea p.4,13.
Though the Suda manuscripts give the headword name as Sostris, it is clear from
pi 671 and
sigma 268 (not to mention external evidence) that one should emend to Sesostris. See generally
Herodotus 2.102-110, and A.B. Lloyd in OCD4 p.1356 ("Though based on several rulers of the Twelfth Dynasty called Senwosret, he ultimately became an embodiment of the ideal of Egyptian kingship much used in nationalist propaganda").
[1] The online Suda Greek text for the numeral here appears to be corrupted. Malalas here reads
xilia/das ie' ("15 thousand"); cf. Dindorf (26) and Thurn (16). The
Chronicon Paschale transmits
xilia/das dekape/nte ("fifteen thousand"); cf.
Chronicon Dindorf (84). However, John of
Antioch Fragmenta ex Historia chronica reads
muria/das e' ("5 ten-thousands"), as in Adler's Suda text; cf. fr. 8 Roberto (22-23). In her apparatus Adler notes that Malalas and ms G read
xilia/das.
References:
L.A. Dindorf, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Bonn 1831)
J. Thurn, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Berlin 2000)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
A.G. Roos, ed., Studia Arrianea, (Leipzig 1912)
L.A. Dindorf, ed., Chronicon Paschale, vol. 1, (Bonn 1832)
U. Roberto, ed., Ioannis Antiocheni Fragmenta ex Historia chronica, (Berlin 2005)
Keywords: biography; chronology; clothing; geography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: Timothy Pepper on 7 February 2001@05:57:41.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 7 February 2001@09:52:12.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 10 December 2004@17:21:35.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 31 December 2013@04:44:59.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 9 August 2014@11:45:23.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography primary note) on 13 August 2026@11:12:59.
Ronald Allen (added note and further bibliography) on 21 August 2026@12:39:56.
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