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Headword: Enthous
Adler number: epsilon,1363
Translated headword: possessed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he who is being] carried along by a god, is in ecstasy.[1]
By contraction of the [form] e)/nqeos.[2]
Appian [writes]: "Scipio, both in his bearing and his countenance appearing as if possessed, said that his accustomed spirit had come to him and was summoning him against his enemies".[3] That is, [as if] god-inspired.
Greek Original:
Enthous: tetheophorêmenos, enthousiôn. sunaloiphê de tou entheos. Appianos: ho de Skipiôn kai to schêma kai to blemma diatheis hôsper enthous, ephê to daimonion hêkein to sunêthes autôi kai kalein epi tous polemious. toutesti theolêptos.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2] Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.437.5, cf. Etymologicum Magnum 341.20. See also epsilon 1364, epsilon, 1365, epsilon 1366, epsilon 1367.
[3] Appian, Iberica (Teubner edn.) 101; cf. Libyca 30.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 September 2002@12:44:22.
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