Αὐδώδ

Audôd

Translated by Jennifer Benedict28 Mar 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

21 words

A judge of Israel; in a single day with the ploughshare of his oxen he smote 600 men from foreign tribes.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Αὐδώδ, κριτὴς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ, ἐκ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ ἐν τῷ ἀροτρόποδι τῶν βοῶν ἐπάταξεν ἄνδρας χʹ.

Betacode

*au)dw/d, krith\s tou= *)israh\l, e)k tw=n a)llofu/lwn e)n h(me/ra| mia=| e)n tw=| a)rotro/podi tw=n bow=n e)pa/tacen a)/ndras x#.

Cf. George the Monk, Chronicon 146.13 and 19-20. But the judge was Aod, and his successor Samegar smote the foreigners (cf. Judges 3.30-31 LXX). The name Audod is attested only in the Suda and ps.-Zonaras.

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