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Headword: Θᾶσσον
Adler number: theta,66
Translated headword: sooner
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
"For [sooner] might someone count all the [sc. grains of] sand than the number of people this man killed. Calculating the territory, made devoid of its inhabitants, I say that ten thousand ten thousands of ten thousands perished".
Greek Original:
Θᾶσσον γὰρ ἄν τις τὴν πᾶσαν ψάμμον ἐξαριθμήσειεν, ἢ ὅσους οὗτος ἀνῄρηκε. τὴν δὲ χώραν διαριθμούμενος, ἔρημον οὖσαν τῶν ἐνοικούντων, μυριάδας μυριάδων μυρίας φημὶ ἀπολωλέναι.
Note:
An approximation of Procopius, Secret History 18.4 (on Justinian: iota 446).
Keywords: biography; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 January 2008@06:10:33.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 21 January 2008@14:47:30.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 22 January 2008@02:59:00.
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