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Headword:
*me/gas
basileu/s
Adler number: mu,389
Translated headword: Great King
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the [king] of the Persians. [So called] because they used the greater power of the Persian Empire.[1]
To the other [kings] they added also the names of those who were ruled, as "of the Lacedaimonians", "of the Macedonians". See also under
basileus megas.[2]
The nominative,
ho megas, has neither genitive nor dative; the accusative [is]
ton megan.[3] The vocative is found in poetry; as
Agathias says in the
Epigrams: "o greatly daring wax [which portrayed you]."[4]
*me/gas basileu/s: o( tw=n *persw=n. dia\ to\ plei/oni duna/mei xrh=sqai th=| *persikh=|. tou\s de\ a)/llous proseti/qesan kai\ tw=n a)rxome/nwn ta\ o)no/mata, oi(=on *lakedaimoni/wn, *makedo/nwn. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| basileu\s me/gas. h( eu)qei=a, o( me/gas, genikh\n ou)k e)/xei ou)/te dotikh/n: h( ai)tiatikh/, to\n me/gan. h( de\ klhtikh\ eu(/rhtai para\ toi=s poihtai=s: w(/s fhsin *)agaqi/as e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)= me/ga tolmh/eis khro/s.
Notes:
[1] This gloss draws on the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 170 (where the phrase "Great King" occurs). It is awkwardly phrased, and the translation by W.G. Rutherford recasts it as follows: "because the resources of Persia made him more than ordinarily powerful".
[2]
beta 144.
[3] The other cases are formed from the stem
megalo-;
Aeschylus once uses the vocative
megale (
Seven Against Thebes 822).
[4]
Greek Anthology 1.34.2:
Agathias (6th c. AD), addressing the icon of an archangel; cf.
alpha 1,
sigma 664.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 November 2000@22:18:06.
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