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Headword: Παλιμβολία
Adler number: pi,87
Translated headword: fickleness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
An opinion which is easily changed.[1]
Agathias: "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:
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.
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1; cf. παλίμβολος at pi 88 & pi 89.
[1] Same glossing in other lexica.
[2] Agathias, Histories 2.6. (This noun also occurs in Greek Anthology 5.302.12, attributed to the same Agathias.)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; historiography; history; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 July 2001@22:19:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 31 July 2001@03:00:28.
David Whitehead (another note; another keyword; tweaks) on 11 May 2011@07:47:46.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 26 August 2011@07:13:38.
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