Saturday, March 15, 2025
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Josephus, Jewish Wars 7.249-250 (tr. H. St. J. Thackeray; "a distant enemy" = one of the Alani):
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Tiridates, the king of that country, who met them and gave them battle, narrowly escaped being taken alive in the engagement; for a noose was thrown round him by a distant enemy who would have dragged him off, had he not instantly cut the rope with his sword and succeeded in escaping.See Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen, The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), pp. 239-240, for this and other examples.
Τιριδάτης δ᾿ αὐτῆς ἐβασίλευεν, ὃς ὑπαντιάσας αὐτοῖς καὶ ποιησάμενος μάχην παρὰ μικρὸν ἦλθεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς ζωὸς ἁλῶναι τῆς παρατάξεως· βρόχον γὰρ αὐτῷ περιβαλών τις πόρρωθεν ἔμελλεν ἐπισπάσειν, εἰ μὴ τῷ ξίφει θᾶττον ἐκεῖνος τὸν τόνον κόψας ἔφθη διαφυγεῖν.
