Κεντιλίων σχολῆς
of the school of the Kentilioi; of the Gentiles' school
Translated by Nick Nicholas30 Oct 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
A kind of rank/position.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κεντιλίων σχολῆς· εἶδος ἀξιώματος.
Betacode
*kentili/wn sxolh=s: ei)=dos a)ciw/matos.
Notes (1)
- The first word of the headword phrase, the genitive plural
kentili/wn , looks like a corruption ofgentili/wn orgenthli/wn , i.e. "gentiles". The phrase as a whole seems to be taken from the Passion of SS Sergius and Bacchus (web address 1), and appears also in its summary in the Synaxarion [summary of saints' lives] of the Church of Constantinople for October 7: "And St Sergius was the primicerius [highest ranking junior officer] of the School of the Gentiles, while St Bacchus was the secundicerius of the same school."
The "school" was in fact the regiment of horse-guards, originally consisting of non-Romans (Fowden 1999: 9). In Boswell's (1994: 375-390) well-known monograph it is rendered inaccurately as an educational institution. - 1For this gloss see also mu 135, omicron 711, pi 2236, pi 2884, rho 77, sigma 153, sigma 452, sigma 1188, tau 785. ↩
References
Fowden, Elizabeth Key. 1999. The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran. University of California Press.
Boswell, John. 1994. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Villard.
Boswell, John. 1994. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Villard.
External resources
- Web address 1 cs.cmu.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 30 Jul 2019
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; x-refs; tweak — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Nick Nicholas