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Headword:
*qa=sson
Adler number: theta,66
Translated headword: sooner
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "For [sooner] might someone count all the [sc. grains of] sand than the number of people this man killed. Calculating the territory, made devoid of its inhabitants, I say that ten thousand ten thousands of ten thousands perished".
Greek Original:*qa=sson ga\r a)/n tis th\n pa=san ya/mmon e)cariqmh/seien, h)\ o(/sous ou(=tos a)nh/|rhke. th\n de\ xw/ran diariqmou/menos, e)/rhmon ou)=san tw=n e)noikou/ntwn, muria/das muria/dwn muri/as fhmi\ a)polwle/nai.
Note:
An approximation of
Procopius,
Secret History 18.4 (on Justinian:
iota 446). The headword is the neuter accusative singular comparative of
taxu/s, used adverbially: cf.
tau 199. This entry is out of alphabetical order.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 January 2008@06:10:33.
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