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ε1020Ἐμπίςgnat… George of Pisidia, Bellum Avaricum line 64; Per l'incursione dei barbari 64 Tartaglia; on barbarian attacks on Constantinople: Avars in 612/614 and 623 and Persians in 609 and 615; cf. Tartaglia (161, note 13). …Matched in noteshighshort
α2349Ἀνέφαπτονunaffected… Suda's plural; Procopius offers a vivid simile for Roman and barbarian travails under the rule of Justinian I (cf. iota 446).Matched in noteshighshort
κ2355Κραιπαλᾶνto carouse… admonish the Avar Khan for his arrogance and temper the barbarian's demands upon the Romans. On Theodore see PLRE IIIb s.v. Theodorus(43). On the Avars see generally alpha 18 note.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3444Εὔερονfleecy, cushy… ('wooly'), which strict Atticists like Phrynichus (116) condemn as a barbarism. [2] Plato Comicus fr. 169 Kock, now 184 K.-A. (For Hyperbolus see under upsilon 245.) [3] The transmitted accusative here clearly should be …Matched in noteshighshort
μ171ΜαξέντιοςMaxentios, Maxentius… in peace at Thessalonica, but later, when Licinius gathered a barbarian army to oppose Constantine, the latter found out and ordered him to be killed, as he soon was (Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica 1.4, lines …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… he is clearly against giving a salary to soldiers whose "barbarian" manners appear immediately, since they try to steal the garlic Dicaeopolis has brought for himself. For other allusions to the violent, often bloody …Matched in noteshighmedium