Ῥώμη
force, might; Rome
Translated by Catharine Roth5 Sep 2006Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] strength.1
Also [sc. attested is upper-case] Rome, [meaning] the city [of that name].2
[The city] which, when 477 years had passed from its first settlement ... they were untested in external wars ... expecting that the war with the Carthaginians would be such as had not yet been, made a census of the population and found the number of the citizens not much less than 300,000.3
[Note] that Athenaeus said that Rome [was] an epitome of the inhabited world.4
See also under chiliarch.5
Also [sc. attested is upper-case] Rome, [meaning] the city [of that name].2
[The city] which, when 477 years had passed from its first settlement ... they were untested in external wars ... expecting that the war with the Carthaginians would be such as had not yet been, made a census of the population and found the number of the citizens not much less than 300,000.3
[Note] that Athenaeus said that Rome [was] an epitome of the inhabited world.4
See also under chiliarch.5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥώμη· ἰσχύς. καὶ Ῥώμη, ἡ πόλις. ἥτις ἀπὸ τοῦ πρώτου συνοικισμοῦ διαγεγονότων ζʹ καὶ οʹ καὶ υʹ ἐτῶν, ἀπείρατοι ἦσαν ὑπερορίων πολέμων, τὸν δὲ πρὸς Καρχηδονίους ὅσον οὔπω παρέσεσθαι πόλεμον προσδεχόμενος ἐξέτασιν ἐποιεῖτο τοῦ πλήθους καὶ εὗρεν ἀριθμὸν τῶν πολιτῶν οὐ πολὺ ἀπολειπόμενον λʹ μυριάδων. ὅτι τὴν Ῥώμην ἐπιτομὴν τῆς οἰκουμένης εἶπεν Ἀθήναιος. καὶ ζήτει ἐν τῷ χιλίαρχος.
Betacode
*(rw/mh: i)sxu/s. kai\ *(rw/mh, h( po/lis. h(/tis a)po\ tou= prw/tou sunoikismou= diagegono/twn z# kai\ o# kai\ u# e)tw=n, a)pei/ratoi h)=san u(perori/wn pole/mwn, to\n de\ pro\s *karxhdoni/ous o(/son ou)/pw pare/sesqai po/lemon prosdexo/menos e)ce/tasin e)poiei=to tou= plh/qous kai\ eu(=ren a)riqmo\n tw=n politw=n ou) polu\ a)poleipo/menon l# muria/dwn. o(/ti th\n *(rw/mhn e)pitomh\n th=s oi)koume/nhs ei)=pen *)aqh/naios. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| xili/arxos.
Notes (5)
- 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius rho206 Theodoridis. For 'strength' see iota 732. ↩
- 2cf. rho 249. ↩
- 3cf. rho 247, upsilon 340. ↩
- 4Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.20B (1.37 Kaibel): "he also says that if someone were to call Rome an epitome of the inhabited world he would not shoot wide of the mark". ↩
- 5chi 305. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 29 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr and n.4 — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth