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Headword: *(uperke/rwsis
Adler number: upsilon,317
Translated headword: outflanking
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Outflanking is [sc. the term used] when we outflank the enemy out of one part [= wing] only.
"Furthermore, they were able to make neither sorties with the horses nor outflankings, [...] being cut off by the army".[1]
Greek Original:
*(uperke/rwsis: u(perke/rwsi/s e)stin, o(/tan e)k tou= e(te/rou me/rous mo/non u(pere/xwmen tw=n polemi/wn. a)lla\ ga\r ou)/te e)kdroma\s toi=s i(/ppois kai\ u(perkerw/seis poiei=sqai e)du/nanto, w(s dh\ a)peilhmme/noi tw=| strateu/mati.
Notes:
The spelling of this term is either u(perke/rasis or (as here, presumably from the Agathias passage) u(perke/rwsis.
cf. Asclepiodotus 10.18.
[1] Agathias, Histories 5.19.9, here abridged; cf. Frendo (155). A Hunnish cavalry detachment is entrapped and routed outside the Thracian village of Melantias (cf. mu 463) by a much smaller Roman force led by the veteran Byzantine general Belisarius (cf. beta 233). For further context, see beta 532, gamma 77, and sigma 1513.
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: definition; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 April 2010@08:53:08.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 6 April 2010@19:07:25.
David Whitehead (another note) on 7 April 2010@03:14:42.
David Whitehead on 22 November 2013@10:03:30.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 6 December 2023@11:42:16.

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