Παλιμβολία

fickleness

Translated by Catharine Roth30 Jul 2001Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 32 words
[Describing] an opinion which is easily changed.1
Agathias [writes]: "on the generals' part there was much marshalling, many watch-periods and sleepless times and goings-about among the multitude, hope and fear and fickleness."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παλιμβολία· ἡ εὐμετάβλητος γνώμη. Ἀγαθίας· τῶν δὲ στρατηγῶν πολλὴ μὲν ὑπῆρχε παράταξις, πολλαὶ δὲ φρουραὶ καὶ ἀγρυπνίαι καὶ ἀνὰ τὰ πλήθη περινοστήσεις, ἐλπὶς καὶ δέος καὶ παλιμβολία.

Betacode
*palimboli/a: h( eu)meta/blhtos gnw/mh. *)agaqi/as: tw=n de\ strathgw=n pollh\ me\n u(ph=rxe para/tacis, pollai\ de\ frourai\ kai\ a)grupni/ai kai\ a)na\ ta\ plh/qh perinosth/seis, e)lpi\s kai\ de/os kai\ palimboli/a.

Notes (2)

  1. LSJ entry at web address 1; cf. pali/mbolos at pi 88 & pi 89.
  2. 1Same glossing in other lexica; references at Photius pi71 Theodoridis. ↩
  3. 2Agathias, Histories 2.6. (This noun also occurs in Greek Anthology 5.302.12, attributed to the same Agathias.) The abridged passage describes the meticulous preparations of the closely encamped Frankish and Roman armies before the Battle of the Volturnus (Battle of Capua, 554 CE, cf. delta 506); cf. Frendo (37). For additional background, see epsilon 953, lambda 387, and mu 764. ↩

References


J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)

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π85Παλιμβαλήςbackwards-thrownπ86Παλίμβιοςre-living, living againπ87Παλιμβολίαficklenessπ88Παλίμβολονreversed, unstableπ89Παλίμβολοςcontrary
Revision history6 revisions · last 13 Nov 2023
  1. expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. tweaks — David Whitehead
  5. another note; another keyword; tweaks — David Whitehead
  6. Revised — David Whitehead
  7. Translated — Catharine Roth

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