Ἀνάρροπον
backwards
Translated by Jennifer Benedict22 Oct 2000Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] hastening-back.
"The Frankish force, having engaged with the Romans, pushed them out and turned the infantry backwards".1
And Menander [writes]: "with the Avars coming down a few at a time, the generals immediately took a decision to attack them, and from this to turn the thrust of the Avars backwards".2
"The Frankish force, having engaged with the Romans, pushed them out and turned the infantry backwards".1
And Menander [writes]: "with the Avars coming down a few at a time, the generals immediately took a decision to attack them, and from this to turn the thrust of the Avars backwards".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀνάρροπον· ὀπισθόρμητον. ἡ δὲ Φραγγικὴ δύναμις τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις ξυρραγεῖσα ἐξωθεῖ τε καὶ ἀνάρροπον τίθησι τὴν πεζικὴν στρατιάν. καὶ Μένανδρος· κατιόντων τῶν Ἀβάρων κατ' ὀλίγους, οἱ στρατηγοὶ γνώμῃ ἐχρῶντο παραχρῆμα ἐπιθέσθαι σφίσι, κἀκ τούτου ἀνάρροπον τιθέναι τὴν τῶν Ἀβάρων κατάρασιν.
Betacode
*)ana/rropon: o)pisqo/rmhton. h( de\ *fraggikh\ du/namis toi=s *(rwmai/ois curragei=sa e)cwqei= te kai\ a)na/rropon ti/qhsi th\n pezikh\n stratia/n. kai\ *me/nandros: katio/ntwn tw=n *)aba/rwn kat' o)li/gous, oi( strathgoi\ gnw/mh| e)xrw=nto paraxrh=ma e)piqe/sqai sfi/si, ka)k tou/tou a)na/rropon tiqe/nai th\n tw=n *)aba/rwn kata/rasin.
Notes (2)
- The headword -- neuter singular of the adjective
a)na/rropos , used adverbially -- is illustrated by both of the quotations given. - 1Quotation (again at tau 807) unidentifiable. ↩
- 2Menander Protector fr. 15.2 Blockley (148-149). This fragment is difficult to place. Blockley tentatively locates it after fr. 15.1 (cf. alpha 82) on the grounds that both fragments mention multiple generals, whereas fragments on earlier events, e.g. fr. 12.1 (cf. Blockley (128-129)), describe only one general, Bonus (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Bonus(4)), as being in charge of operations on the Danube frontier in 570-571; cf. Blockley (270, note 175). On the Avars see generally alpha 18. ↩
References
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
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Revision history9 revisions · last 9 Aug 2024
- tweaked n.2, added to bibliography — Ronald Allen
- expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-reference, and keyword — Ronald Allen
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- updated ref — David Whitehead
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified headword and translation; added notes — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict