Ἀξιόλογα βάρη
noteworthy weights
Translated by Jennifer Benedict30 Nov 2000Vetting: high11 revisions
Translation
"So that we might send from the towers well-aimed [and] noteworthy weights of stones."1
"And [he] having strewn the roads with noteworthy stones."2
"And [he] having bridged the marshes with noteworthy coverings."3 That is, attractive, large [ones].
And elsewhere: "[...] Mermeroes to point out to us, since it is not a remarkable country, nor even worth fighting for, nor a task for a royal expedition; but one of its peoples are amongst those near the Caucasus."4
"And [he] having strewn the roads with noteworthy stones."2
"And [he] having bridged the marshes with noteworthy coverings."3 That is, attractive, large [ones].
And elsewhere: "[...] Mermeroes to point out to us, since it is not a remarkable country, nor even worth fighting for, nor a task for a royal expedition; but one of its peoples are amongst those near the Caucasus."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀξιόλογα βάρη· ὡς ἂν ἀπὸ τῶν πύργων πέμπωμεν ἑκηβολώτατα ἀξιόλογα λίθων βάρη. καὶ ἀξιολόγοις καταστρώσας λίθοις τὰς ὁδούς. καὶ εἰλήμασιν ἀξιολόγοις τοὺς ὑδροστατουμένους γεφυρώσας. τουτέστιν εὐπρεπέσι, μεγίστοις. καὶ αὖθις· τὸν Μερμερόην ἡμῖν σημᾶναι, ὡς οὐκ ἔστιν ἀξιόλογος ἡ χώρα, οὐδὲ μὴν περιμάχητος, οὐδὲ βασιλικῆς ἔργον ἐκστρατείας· ἀλλ' ἓν ὑπάρχει τῶν ἐθνῶν τῶν περὶ τὸν Καύκασον.
Betacode
*)acio/loga ba/rh: w(s a)\n a)po\ tw=n pu/rgwn pe/mpwmen e(khbolw/tata a)cio/loga li/qwn ba/rh. kai\ a)ciolo/gois katastrw/sas li/qois ta\s o(dou/s. kai\ ei)lh/masin a)ciolo/gois tou\s u(drostatoume/nous gefurw/sas. toute/stin eu)prepe/si, megi/stois. kai\ au)=qis: to\n *mermero/hn h(mi=n shma=nai, w(s ou)k e)/stin a)cio/logos h( xw/ra, ou)de\ mh\n perima/xhtos, ou)de\ basilikh=s e)/rgon e)kstratei/as: a)ll' e(\n u(pa/rxei tw=n e)qnw=n tw=n peri\ to\n *kau/kason.
Notes (4)
- The headword phrase, in the neuter plural, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.↩
- 1Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Synesius, Letters 133.16 (with optative
pe/mpoimen ). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.XCVI. The same passage is quoted at alpha 2621. ↩- 2Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 4Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley (80-81), the Persian king Chosroes (cf. chi 418) explains his lack of designs on Suania to Justinian's envoy Petros. The time frame is 561-562; cf. Blockley (254 note 30). On Mermeroes cf. mu 637 (and pi 2201). On Justinian see iota 446. On Petros (Petrus) cf. pi 1406 and pi 1408. Suania (Svaneti, Svanetia, Souania) is a mountainous region of the Caucasus; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium s.v. Suania and Barrington Atlas map 87 grid H2.
- 1Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Synesius, Letters 133.16 (with optative
References
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
A.P. Kazhdan, ed. et al., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, (Oxford 1991)
A.P. Kazhdan, ed. et al., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, (Oxford 1991)
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Revision history11 revisions · last 16 Aug 2024
- expanded n.4; added bibliography and cross-references — Ronald Allen
- cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- another cross-reference — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- updated a reference — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
- augmented notes, inc a source identification; tweaks — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; added a keyword — David Whitehead
- augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
- modified headword, translation, keywords; added notes — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict