Ἀγομένων τῶν ἡμετέρων

our [possessions] being led off

Translated by Catharine Roth · 5 Mar 2001 · Vetting: high · 13 revisions

Translation

Meaning them being snatched and being looted.¹
"[They] leading and carrying, in every form plundering and ravaging the land."²
And elsewhere: "since no one was defending, they went on leading and carrying with great fearlessness."³

Greek original

Ἀγομένων τῶν ἡμετέρων· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἁρπαζομένων καὶ λῃστευομένων. ἄγοντες καὶ φέροντες, διὰ πάσης ἰδέας λεηλατοῦντες καὶ πορθοῦντες τὴν χώραν. καὶ αὖθις· οὐδενὸς ἀμυνομένου κατὰ τὴν πολλὴν ἄδειαν ἄγοντες καὶ φέροντες διετέλεσαν.

Betacode

*)agome/nwn tw=n h(mete/rwn: a)nti\ tou= a(rpazome/nwn kai\ lh|steuome/nwn. a)/gontes kai\ fe/rontes, dia\ pa/shs i)de/as lehlatou=ntes kai\ porqou=ntes th\n xw/ran. kai\ au)=qis: ou)deno\s a)munome/nou kata\ th\n pollh\n a)/deian a)/gontes kai\ fe/rontes diete/lesan.

Notes (2)

[1] Same glossing in other lexica. The headword phrase, in the genitive plural, is evidently quoted from somewhere.
On the idiomatic a)/gein kai\ fe/rein, see alpha 209 and epsilon 427 (and LSJ on a)/gw I.3). Compare Latin ferre et agere: e.g. Livy 22.3, 7 postquam res sociorum ante oculos prope suos ferri agique vidit; 38.15 ut ferri agique res suas viderunt, 3.37 (the same).
2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. ↩
3C. Theodoridis (at vol.II p.LXXX of his Photius edition) plausibly identifies the source of this passage as a lost section of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, on the basis of close phraseological parallels in 2 passages of that work: 3.50.4 and 5.52.2.

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Linked from (1)

α209Ἄγειν καὶ φέρεινto plunder and to pillage

Neighbours in Adler order

α290Ἄγνυταιis shattered α291ἈγολαῖοςAgolaios, Agolaeus α292Ἀγόμενος διὰ φρατέρων κύων μαστιγοῦταιa dog led through phratry-members is whipped α293Ἀγομένων τῶν ἡμετέρωνour [possessions] being led off α294Ἀγόμφωτονnot-bolted α295Ἀγονίαsterility α296Ἀγωνίσονται γενικῇthey will contend

Revisions (13)

26 Jul 2014David Whiteheadtweaked a note
25 Jul 2014Catharine Rothcoding
18 Aug 2013David Whiteheadmore keywords
5 Jan 2012David Whitehead
10 Oct 2011Catharine Rothcosmetics
10 Oct 2011David Whiteheadexpanded and modified n.3
27 Feb 2011David Whitehead
20 Feb 2011David Whiteheadaugmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics
5 Apr 2005Catharine Rothaugmented note with references supplied by A. Ippolito
14 Apr 2004David Whiteheadx-ref; cosmetics
5 Mar 2001David Whitehead
5 Mar 2001Catharine Rothtranslated

Greek original

Betacode

*)agome/nwn tw=n h(mete/rwn: a)nti\ tou= a(rpazome/nwn kai\ lh|steuome/nwn. a)/gontes kai\ fe/rontes, dia\ pa/shs i)de/as lehlatou=ntes kai\ porqou=ntes th\n xw/ran. kai\ au)=qis: ou)deno\s a)munome/nou kata\ th\n pollh\n a)/deian a)/gontes kai\ fe/rontes diete/lesan.

Notes (2)

[1] Same glossing in other lexica. The headword phrase, in the genitive plural, is evidently quoted from somewhere.
On the idiomatic a)/gein kai\ fe/rein, see alpha 209 and epsilon 427 (and LSJ on a)/gw I.3). Compare Latin ferre et agere: e.g. Livy 22.3, 7 postquam res sociorum ante oculos prope suos ferri agique vidit; 38.15 ut ferri agique res suas viderunt, 3.37 (the same).

2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. ↩

3C. Theodoridis (at vol.II p.LXXX of his Photius edition) plausibly identifies the source of this passage as a lost section of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, on the basis of close phraseological parallels in 2 passages of that work: 3.50.4 and 5.52.2.