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Ἀποπορευτέα · necessary to go back (α 3484) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

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α3481having satisfied
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Ἀποπορευτέα

necessary to go back

Translated by Jennifer Benedict2 Jun 2001Vetting: high8 revisions

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1 note · 28 words

Translation

Agathias [writes]: "accordingly it seemed to him necessary to go back to the river Phasis, and from the difficult terrains there."¹
Meaning necessary to revisit, necessary to return.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀποπορευτέα· Ἀγαθίας· τοιγαροῦν ἀποπορευτέα αὐτῷ ἐδόκει ἐπὶ Φάσιν ποταμὸν, καὶ τῶν ἐκείνῃ δυσχωριῶν. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπανακτέον, ὑποστρεπτέον.

Betacode

*)apoporeute/a: *)agaqi/as: toigarou=n a)poporeute/a au)tw=| e)do/kei e)pi\ *fa/sin potamo\n, kai\ tw=n e)kei/nh| dusxwriw=n. a)nti\ tou= e)panakte/on, u(postrepte/on.

Notes (1)

The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
1A loose and garbled version of Agathias, Histories 2.22 (p.112 Niebuhr): 'to the river Phasis' should be 'to Telephis' (a city of that name), the Suda's grammatically impossible tw=n e)kei/nh| dusxwriw=n should be th\n e)kei/nh| dusxwri/an, and a crucial 'not' is missing. During the Lazic War (541-562), in 555 CE the Sasanian general Mihr-Mihroe (Mermeroes in Greek; cf. mu 637), decides not to advance through rough terrain to Telephis (in Lazike/Kolchis, at the eastern end of the Black Sea, Barrington Atlas map 88 grid A2; cf. sigma 793 notes) and moves his army safely across the Phasis (phi 122 and phi 124) instead; cf. Frendo (55-56). On the dating of these events, see Cameron (143-144).

References

J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
A. Cameron, Agathias, (Oxford 1970)

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Neighbouring entries

α3482ἈποπνέωI smell (of), I breathe forth α3483Ἀποπομπαῖοςevil-dismissing α3484Ἀποπορευτέαnecessary to go back α3485Ἀποπορείαreturn, return journey α3486Ἀποπρεσβεύειreports as ambassador

Revision history8 revisions · last 29 Sep 2023

29 Sep 2023expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keywords — Ronald Allen
28 Aug 2015 — David Whitehead
11 Jul 2015coding — Catharine Roth
4 Apr 2012another note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
21 Aug 2002added keyword — David Whitehead
3 Jun 2001added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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2 Jun 2001Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀποπορευτέα (Adler number alpha 3484), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 2 Jun 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3484

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by Ronald Allen, David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗