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Ἀδήλητος · unhurt (α 457) · 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

Near α457

α453Adeimantos, Adimantus
α454asking [me] to sing as if entertaining cicadas
α455you sing as if sailing into Delos
α456being sated
α457unhurt
α458uncertainty
α459I am bewildered
α460having disguised, having obfuscated
α461distress, trouble

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Ἀδήλητος

unhurt

Translated by Jennifer Benedict16 Mar 2001Vetting: high10 revisions

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2 notes · 18 words

Translation

[Meaning] undamaged, unharmed.¹
Agathias [writes]: "and they appeared [...] both safe and unhurt."²
For dhlw= [means] I harm.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀδήλητος· ἀσινὴς, ἀβλαβής. Ἀγαθίας· καὶ ἐπεδείκνυντο σῶοί τε καὶ ἀδήλητοι. δηλῶ γὰρ τὸ βλάπτω.

Betacode

*)adh/lhtos: a)sinh\s, a)blabh/s. *)agaqi/as: kai\ e)pedei/knunto sw=oi/ te kai\ a)dh/lhtoi. dhlw= ga\r to\ bla/ptw.

Notes (2)

[1] The headword is masculine nominative singular of this adjective.
2Agathias, Histories 1.13 (here abridged). Prior to attacking the city of Luca (modern-day Lucca, in Tuscany, central Italy; Barrington Atlas map 41 grid C2) in the autumn of 553 CE, the Byzantine general Narses (cf. nu 42) released a group of Lucchesi hostages completely unharmed to the townspeople. Narses held the hope (which was ultimately futile) that the gesture would sway the city's loyalty from the Franks to the Romans and that he could thereby avoid a prolonged siege; cf. alpha 1709, beta 495, mu 707, and Frendo (19-21). A number of scholars have held doubts as to the veracity of Agathias's account; see Cameron (51), Ites (281), and Stein (606). ↩
3More precisely, dhle/omai: see LSJ s.v., and cf. delta 402, delta 403, delta 404.

References

J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
A. Cameron, Agathias, (Oxford 1970)
M. Ites, "Zur Bewertung des Agathias", Byzantinische Zeitschrift, vol. 26, (1926), 273-285
E. Stein, Histoire du Bas-Empire, vol. II, (Paris 1949)

Linked from2 entries

α1709Ἀμφιγνοεῖis in two minds[Meaning he/she/it] is in doubt. Agathias [writes]: "while they were being amazed and in two minds over why he might have done this". Meaning, are in doubt. To be in two minds, then, [is] not to know or to be at a loss.
β495ΒῶνοςBônos, BonusThe general of Mysia, the [region] stretched along the river Danube; a man reaching the height of intelligence and extremely good at matters both political and military. He lived in the time of Justinian.

Neighbouring entries

α455ᾌδεις ὥσπερ εἰς Δῆλον πλέωνyou sing as if sailing into Delos α456Ἀδηκότεςbeing sated α457Ἀδήλητοςunhurt α458Ἀδηλίαuncertainty α459ἈδημονῶI am bewildered

Revision history10 revisions · last 20 Oct 2023

20 Oct 2023further expanded n.2, added to bibliography — Ronald Allen
8 Oct 2023added cross-references n.2 — Ronald Allen
20 Sep 2023tweak n.2 — Ronald Allen
13 Sep 2023expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keywords — Ronald Allen
20 Apr 2015coding — Catharine Roth
19 Apr 2015another note; tweaking — David Whitehead
10 Jan 2012betacoding and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
30 Apr 2002added note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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16 Mar 2001Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀδήλητος (Adler number alpha 457), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 16 Mar 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/457

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