Φθόρος

destruction

Translated by Catharine Roth2 Jan 2010Vetting: high6 revisions

4 notes · 47 words

In the masculine.¹
"So much sought by him [Justinian] was always the destruction of men ..."²
And elsewhere: "a great destruction of bodies occurred."³
"For if it is necessary to understand the destruction at all, anyone who saw what happened then would have known it with certainty."⁴

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φθόρος· ἀρσενικῶς. οὕτως ἦν αὐτῷ κατεσπουδασμένος ὁ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀεὶ φθόρος. καὶ αὖθις· πολὺς δὲ φθόρος ἐγίνετο τῶν σωμάτων. εἰ γάρ τι δεῖ νοεῖν τὸν φθόρον, τότ' ἂν ἰδών τις τὸ συμβαῖνον ἔγνω σαφῶς.

Betacode

*fqo/ros: a)rsenikw=s. ou(/tws h)=n au)tw=| katespoudasme/nos o( tw=n a)nqrw/pwn a)ei\ fqo/ros. kai\ au)=qis: polu\s de\ fqo/ros e)gi/neto tw=n swma/twn. ei) ga/r ti dei= noei=n to\n fqo/ron, to/t' a)\n i)dw/n tis to\ sumbai=non e)/gnw safw=s.

Notes (4)

1Sc. as contrasted with the feminine noun fqora/. Both are related to the verb fqei/rw (phi 484). ↩
2Procopius, Secret History 13.8 (web address 1); cf. Kaldellis (62). On Justinian see iota 446 generally. ↩
3Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. ↩
4As n. 3. ↩

References

A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung II," Byzantinische Zeitung 23 (1914-1919) 53

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

φ484ΦθείρωI destroy[Used] with an accusative. "Whatever is destroyed is destroyed in [sc. one of] two ways, either in the manner of bodies, by dissolution into the elements, or in the manner of incorporeal things, when the form is…

Neighbouring entries

φ511Φθονῶ σοιI envy you φ512Στίχοι Δημητρίου εἰς φθονερούςlines of Demetrios against the envious φ513Φθόροςdestruction φ514ΦλάβιοςFlavius φ515ΦλάϊςPhlais

Revision history6 revisions · last 15 Jul 2024

15 Jul 2024tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
14 Jul 2024added bibliography, cross-reference, and link n.2 — Ronald Allen
3 Mar 2023cross-reference — Catharine Roth
31 May 2016coding — David Whitehead
13 Dec 2013Revised — David Whitehead
4 Jan 2010another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
2 Jan 2010Translated — Catharine Roth

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